You considered painting your car yellow and posting a “taxi” sign on the lawn next to the garage door.

你想过把你的车子漆成黄色，并在车库门旁的草坪上立一个“出租车”的标志牌。

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THE arm of a typical industrial robot is a crude-looking but functional implement designed for a single job, such as placing tiny components onto a circuit board or painting a car.

通常工业机器人的手臂虽然看起来粗糙，却是能完成某一特定任务的得力工具，比如在电路板上安装小零件、给轿车上漆等。

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Today, the robotics industry is on the cusp of moving beyond fixed, industrial applications like welding and painting car bodies.

目前，机器人业处于走出固定的工业应用（如焊接和油漆车身）的关头。

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Inside, in a space not much bigger than a three-car garage, was a single shaft-painting machine, a work station where clubs were cut to size and grips attached, and racks containing 40, 000 to 50, 000 shafts and 5, 000 clubheads.

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In addition to offering canal-side camping and houseboat rentals, John and Paula host pontoon excursions to the lakes, and have a wide range of activities on their property, including pottery, painting and radio-controlled car racing.

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Yet DuPont points to the example of its car-paints business: because it makes money by painting cars for car makers, it shares their incentive to sell less paint.

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