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sensors 8, 104, 110, 135 space probes xix, 68–69, toy robots 26–27, 53–55
service robots 28–29 80 transcendence, robotics
servomechanisms, in World space shuttles 80 and 143
War II 23 speech, emotional state transhumanism 143
SETI (Search for response to 120–123 Transitions Research
Extraterrestrial Spielberg, Steven 126 Corporation 28–29
Intelligence) 70 Spirit rover 80–81, 117 Truth, Sojourner 78
Seven Dwarfs (robots) Stanford Artificial Tufts College 4
154, 155 Intelligence Laboratory Turin, Alan 90
shadows, navigation and (SAIL) 87, 91, 134 Turing Test 90
134 Stanford Cart (robot) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Shakey (robot) xviii, 56, 132–134, 133 (film) 86, 93
87–88 Stanford Research
shaking hands 110 Institute, Shakey at xviii, U
Sharper Image 60 56 Unimate (industrial robot)
Shigami, Satoshi 109 Stanford University 86, xviii, 22, 24, 25–26, 26
Shirley, Donna xix, 132–134 Unimation, Inc. 24, 28
66–84, 67 Stanley (robot) 136 universal robots 140–142
Siegelman, Jim 7 Stardust probe 80 upward motion 41, 41–42
simulations, of walking Starship Troopers
42 (Heinlein) 46 V
situated robots 93 Star Wars (film) 52, vacuum cleaner, robotic
Six Million Dollar Man, 116–117 55–60, 98. See also
The (television) 148 “static crawlers” 38 Roomba (robot)
slave labor, mechanical steam engine, feedback Vatican, on humanoid
labor as 17 in 9 robots 112
Smap (pop group) 110 subsumption architecture Vaucanson, Jacques de xvi
Smarttruck (robot) 144 139 VECTORBOT (robot) 87
soccer, robots playing 163 supermarkets, robots used Venus, Mariner 10 mission
sociable robots 97, 116– in 29 to 74
130. See also Kismet Sutherland, Jeff 51 Viking landers xix, 75
social behavior 116, 119 vision 87–88, 96, 99,
social interactions 12, 125 T 118, 119, 133–134, 140,
social science, robotics and taking turns, by Cog 119 142–144
127 teacher, robot as 128 visual stimulation, of
sociology, cybernetics’ Teddy, Peter 158 Kismet 125
influence on 16 Teleological Society 12–13 voice recognition 109
soda cans, robotic collec- teleology 12 Vulcan (mythological fig-
tion of 92 Terminal Man, The ure) xv
Sojourner (planetary (Crichton) 150
explorer) 66, 77–81, 78, Terragator (robot) 135– W
93, 117 136 Wabot-1 (robot) 94
sonar 87, 135 terrain 45–46, 136, 154 Wabot-2 (robot) 94
Sony, Aibo developed by therapy, by robots 128 Wako Research Center
55 tic-tac-toe machine 85 104
Southern California, Titan, missions to 80 walking
University of 68 Tonight Show, The (televi- dynamic balance in 38
space exploration, humans sion), PUMA on 26 energy in 111–113
v. robots in 80–81 Tooth (planetary rover) gravity in 111–113
space missions 71–72, 51, 93 human mechanism
74, 75 tortoise robots 14–15, 15 of 38