The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In fourteen recent test launchings, at ranges of five thousand miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two miles of the target.

We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

Plato feels that man has two competing aspects, his rational faculty and his irrational.

The movement toward European unity has been expressed in two currents: federalism and functionalism, one looking to the constitution of a United States of Europe, the other building on wartime precedents of practical cooperation for the solution of specific problems.

`` The established pattern of relative calm in the field of race relations has continued in all areas '', reported this group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South Floridians, William D. Singer and John B. Turner of Miami.

My son, who has completed two years in engineering school, has a summer job on a construction project as an unskilled laborer.

The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

The accepted method of writing news has two major liabilities.

But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.

All but two of my nine terms in the House of Representatives has been served under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

In the allocation pattern worked out for these frequencies, the provision of long-range service has to some extent been subordinated to the other two objectives -- assignment of multiple facilities, and assignment of stations in as many communities as possible.

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.

The outboard engine of today has a phenomenal range of one to 80 horsepower, unheard of a few years ago for a two cycle engine in quantity production.

She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.

Marlin has made two contributions to the harvest of new offerings.

High Standard has also added two models to its line.

After this has simmered an hour, add two tablespoons each of Worcestershire, catsup, and chutney, two pickled walnuts, and a pint of Sherry.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

In South Korea, the Ministry of Information and Communication has an ambitious plan to put a robot in every household by 2020.

Thus, while Pierre and the robot are both doing the same thing, only Pierre has the inner conscious experience.

Superman manages to destroy the Kryptonite-powered ship and recover the crystal-simultaneously confronting Lex with the fact that, despite his claims that Superman has been ' holding him back ' from helping humanity, the only thing he accomplished with Superman being absent for a year was to find a large robot that he used to try to destroy everything -, but Lex manages to escape custody yet again.

* In the roleplaying game Splicers by Palladium Books, humanity has succumbed to a " nanobot plague " that causes any object made of a non-precious metal to twist and change shape ( sometimes into a type of robot ) moments after being touched by a human.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100 % winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors.

* Home automation and home robotics advance in North America ; iRobot's " Roomba " is the most successful domestic robot and has sold 1. 5 million units.

He has begged the robot government to search for surviving humans, and they have done so.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

As before, NASA has chosen to devote more resources to the more visible human-staffed space missions than to robot spacecraft or scientific experiments.

A fully autonomous robot has the ability to

In planning and control, the essential difference between humanoids and other kinds of robots ( like industrial ones ) is that the movement of the robot has to be human-like, using legged locomotion, especially biped gait.

While work has been done since the 1960s on robot " rovers " to explore the Moon and other worlds in the Solar system, such machines have limitations.

Each robot has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, and describes the same rooms and objects in completely different terms based upon those specializations.

Rotwang was in love with Joh ’ s deceased wife Hel, and – to Joh ’ s horror — reveals that he has been building a robot in order to ‘ resurrect ’ her.

An octahedron-shaped artifact called the Stone-Like, along with a non-functioning robot, has been unearthed.

Back on Earth, Igarashi relays information on the Stone-Like and the robot, claiming it has the serial number 00104, exactly the same number of the robot aboard the Tetra, CREATOR 00104.

Tengai cannot believe this be just a coincidence ( partly due to Igarashi proving that it is, indeed the same robot ), and has the three Silvergun pilots on standby.

Seeing a need to know more about the Stone-Like, Tengai has Creator, the robot aboard the Tetra, to head for the Earth defense headquarters and gather information about it, while the Tetra and the Silverguns hold off the Stone-Like's forces.

On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.