Machines such as these take researchers into the field of socialised robotics: how to make robots act in a way that does not scare or offend individuals.

诸如此类的机器促使研究人员步入了机器人社会化的领域：即，如何让机器人以一种既不会吓到或冒犯到别人的方式行动。

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Robots already work in research laboratories, factories, hospitals, daycares and housekeeping, and the trend is only expected to grow as the field progresses.

机器人已经在研究实验室、工厂、医院、日常护理及家政等领域上开始工作。 发展趋势势不可当。

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Traditionally, people have thought of robots as whirring bits of metal, but there are those in the field who ask why that need be so.

人们心目中传统的机器人形象是锵锵作响的金属，但有些业内人士开始反问为什么（机器人一定）应该是那样。

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Rodney Brooks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nudged the whole field forward in early 1990s when he showed how robots could make faster decisions by responding to sensory data from their immediate environment rather than relying on complex sets of rules.

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"Due to the limitations on the current robotic technologies, robots cannot completely supplant human teachers in the educational field, " said Choi.

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When the final round of the Urban Challenge begins Saturday morning, that field will have been whittled down to just 20 or so robots by the event's sponsor, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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