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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.

An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance.

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.

This story features an artificial humanlike robot named Hadaly.

( 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.

Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

The Waseda University ( Japan ) and NTT Docomo's manufacturers have succeeded in creating a shape-shifting robot WD-2.

The robot expresses its face by moving all points to the decided positions, they say.

The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.

The robot features an elastic mask made from the average head dummy.

The WD-2 robot can change its facial features by activating specific facial points on a mask, with each point possessing three degrees of freedom.

In addition, the researchers also mention that the shifting robot can even display an individual's hair style and skin color if a photo of their face is projected onto the 3D Mask.

EveR-1's name derives from the Biblical Eve, plus the letter r for robot.

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

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

The new robot city will feature research and development centers for manufacturers and part suppliers, as well as exhibition halls and a stadium for robot competitions.

Hanson Robotics, Inc., of Texas and KAIST produced an android portrait of Albert Einstein, using Hanson's facial android technology mounted on KAIST's life-size walking bipedal robot body.

* Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon, C. O. P. S.

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

For objectivists, probability objectively measures the plausibility of propositions, i. e. the probability of a proposition corresponds to a reasonable belief everyone ( even a " robot ") sharing the same knowledge should share in accordance with the rules of Bayesian statistics, which can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency.

One example is an episode of The Twilight Zone, " The Mighty Casey ", concerning a baseball player who is actually a robot.

Each cart could have a simple hand or a small bull-dozer shovel, forming a basic robot.