The character is a humanoid mass of vegetable matter who fights to protect his swamp home, the environment in general, and humanity from various supernatural or terrorist threats.

A humanoid robot is a robot that is based on the general structure of a human, such as a robot that walks on two legs and has an upper torso, or a robot that has two arms, two legs and a head.

In general, a Vortigaunt is a somewhat humanoid figure with two legs and two arms, but has an additional arm protruding from its thorax.

Free from many of the elements that accompany science fiction in general — whether that be space aliens, giant robots, or laser guns — the series delegates itself towards presenting a world that is quite similar to our own albeit showcasing some technological advances.

In the context of general robotics, most types of robots would fall into the category of robotic arms ( inherent in the use of the word manipulator in the above-mentioned ISO standard ).

Westinghouse sold Unimation to Stäubli Faverges SCA of France in 1988, which is still making articulated robots for general industrial and cleanroom applications and even bought the robotic division of Bosch in late 2004.

Dynamical systems, a more general class of systems, which includes robots, are defined in terms of a manifold.

These four stories are representative of Asimov's robot short stories, following his traditional themes of aversion and distrust of robots by the general public and issues arising from the robots ' interpretation of the Three Laws.

The word Real Robot is normally linked to the Super Robot Wars game, the term might have been used occasionally in separate anime, yet it is first used as a general term in the famicom, 4th Super Robot Wars, which is used to describe robots or mecha that are treated as realistic tools / weapons rather than as heroic semi-characters, or Super Robots.

The application of swarm principles to robots is called swarm robotics, while ' swarm intelligence ' refers to the more general set of algorithms.

Unlike distributed robotic systems in general, swarm robotics emphasizes a large number of robots, and promotes scalability, for instance by using only local communication.

Within the common law tradition general liability standards are limited to damages arising in the use or application of robots ; the person using or applying the robot has general liability.

Some of these include the Aura Battlers from Aura Battler Dunbine or the Evangelion units from Neon Genesis Evangelion, which follow the general motif of real robots, but their origin and abilities are more like the typical super robot ( though Evangelions are technically cyborgs ).

Crypton blamed a fear of robots on part of the lack of response on the sale of the software overseas and expressed that there was also a general " anti-Vocaloid " point of view amongst some cultures and communities, although he also noted that he hoped in the future this would change as the software continued to be developed.

He helped mount a mass robot escape to Saturn Six, a moon taken over by robots years before ; he felt he could be made a general on this free world and viewed this as meaning he would not associate with Ro-Jaws anymore.

The general attitude of the public towards robots in much of Dr. Asimov's fiction is fear and suspicion: ordinary people fear that robots will either replace them or dominate them.

PatrolBot is a programmable autonomous general purpose service robot rover built by MobileRobots Inc. PatrolBots are manufactured in various configurations and serve as bases for companies developing delivery robots, security robots, environmental monitoring rovers, robot guides and other indoor service robots.

Crime Master's Jack O-Lantern, along with the same general weapons the previous ones used, has a fleet of tiny flying cartoon-styled devil robots.

In general, hybrid automata have been used to model and analyze a variety of embedded systems including vehicle control systems, air traffic control systems, mobile robots, and processes from systems biology.

They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

College in gross -- just the general experience -- may have varying effects, but the students who are successful emerge with strengthened and clarified democratic values.

Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Under the general heading `` poetry-and-jazz '' widely divergent experiments have been carried out.

Not terror, but anger and resentment have been the general reaction outside the Soviet sphere.

Consequently there have developed several forms of grants-in-aid and shared taxes, as well as the unrestricted grant to local governments for general purposes whose adoption accompanied the introduction of a sales tax at the state level.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

These forty-seven special purpose governments have the authority to levy taxes, to borrow money, own property, sue and be sued, and in general to exercise normal corporate powers.

and that all this would have a serious adverse effect on the entire stock market and on general business activity.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

It is obvious enough that linguists in general have been less successful in coping with tone systems than with consonants or vowels.

Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies.

During much of the year the general level of business activity has moved along on a record-high plateau, but there have been persistent signs of slack in the economy.

Similar considerations presumably made it difficult to prescribe a general rule where the acquired and acquiring corporations have different methods of accounting ( section 381(c)(4) ) or depreciation ( section 381(c)(6) ).

What we have seen in this chapter, we have seen only dimly, and yet the results, however general, are worth the search.

By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.

-- The theory of elasticity of Gaussian networks has been developed on a more general basis and the equations of state relating variables of pressure, volume, temperature, stress and strain have been precisely formulated.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.