Robot in sentence

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In 2007, the Washington Post reported that the United States military was testing this robot that defused land mines.

And the colonel who was in charge of this testing exercise ends up calling it off, because, he says, it's too inhumane to watch this damaged robot drag itself along the minefield.

So for example, researchers at Stanford University found out that it makes people really uncomfortable when you ask them to touch a robot's private parts.

But we feel for them, and that matters, because if we're trying to integrate robots into these shared spaces, we need to understand that people will treat them differently than other devices, and that in some cases, for example, the case of a soldier who becomes emotionally attached to the robot that they work with, that can be anything from inefficient to dangerous.

This is the PARO baby seal robot.

And I remember, years ago, being at a party and telling someone about this robot, and her response was, "Oh my gosh.

But in this case, it's not what this robot replaces.

What this robot replaces is animal therapy in contexts where we can't use real animals but we can use robots, because people will consistently treat them more like an animal than a device.

For example, is it OK if your child's teddy bear robot records private conversations?

Is it OK if your sex robot has compelling in-app purchases?

A few years after that first initial experience I had with this baby dinosaur robot, I did a workshop with my friend Hannes Gassert.

And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."

And this guy stood up, and he took the hatchet, and the whole room winced as he brought the hatchet down on the robot's neck, and there was this half-joking, half-serious moment of silence in the room for this fallen robot.

Because when a child is kind to a Roomba, when a soldier tries to save a robot on the battlefield, or when a group of people refuses to harm a robotic baby dinosaur, those robots aren't just motors and gears and algorithms.

When I was teaching at a middle school, we asked our students to build a robot from a standard technology kit.

We know more about other planets than our own, and today, I want to show you a new type of robot designed to help us better understand our own planet.

And how could a robot be of any use?

This is one tough robot.

Now, doing work in the Arctic is very tough, even for a robot.

Showmen used the same coded cylinders to control the physical movements of what were called automata, an early kind of robot.

And as de Vaucanson was designing his robot musician, he had another idea.

Yes, the military involvement is an important part of the story, but inventing a computer also required other building blocks: music boxes, toy robot flute players, harpsichord keyboards, colorful patterns woven into fabric, and that's just a small part of the story.

I would not let an adult drive my robot.

And we're using the robot for what it's good at: precision and repetitiveness.

What's interesting is, building this pavilion was simply not possible without human, robot and AI augmenting each other.

Now, of course you all know what a robot is, right?

If you don't, you'd probably go to Google, and you'd ask Google what a robot is.

We try to produce a robot that will eat the algae, consume it and make it safe.

To actually make the robot, we take inspiration from two organisms.

So we take those two organisms and we combine them together to make a new kind of robot.

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