noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
industrial
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The future Making people's jobs more interesting is the frequent benefit claimed of automation - the industrial robot is no exception.
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The total population of industrial robots working in the world today is close to a million.
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The biggest industrial application for robots in Britain, accounting for 249 machines, is spot welding.
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Robotics and shop floor systems - control systems, industrial robots and manufacturing equipment.
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In 1983 it bought Unimation, a company credited with inventing the industrial robot .
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In 1968, Unimation licensed Kawasaki Heavy Industries to make industrial robots .
■ NOUN
animal
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Well, our family robot could build a robot animal , easily.
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They wanted to see the robot animal but I said no.
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I said only the Star Council could see the robot animal .
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But I didn't show them the robot animal .
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Everybody looked at me, waiting for me to show them the robot animal .
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The little robot animal jumped on to the Star Table.
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The robot opened its stomach and the second robot animal jumped out.
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He looked at the robot animal with big, round eyes.
arm
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Twist some dials, and the machine trembles, two robot arms pick up soldering irons and hunch down on him.
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Possible applications are continuous speech recognition and commands to robot arms .
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This, in fact, is what engineers do when they devise electronic control circuits to guide spaceships or steer robot arms .
■ VERB
build
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Mr Takamoto is an engineer at the Northtown Nissan plant and in his spare time enjoys building robots .
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And so we build robots that live in their heads.
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Well, our family robot could build a robot animal, easily.
develop
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Armstrong Projects is Britain's first company to develop medical robots .
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It has developed a surgery robot , and Pam, a robot that can transport bedridden patients.
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Microbots-New World Creatures A lot of research is under way to develop small robots that resemble insects.
make
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You will make a robot like an animal.
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Yet a centralized command blueprint has been the main approach to making robots , artificial creatures, and artificial intelligences.
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An animal is made A robot can do many different things from taking care of a baby to building a spaceship.
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It may take another ten to fifteen years to make practical household robots that can act as partners.
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In 1968, Unimation licensed Kawasaki Heavy Industries to make industrial robots .
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Several years ago, Pauline made a crablike robot that would scurry across the floor.
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And before long Hawker Siddeley's board of directors agreed to approach Unimation for a licence to make its robot in Britain.
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Conversely, an electricity tax that makes robots more expensive would shift the balance in the other direction, back toward labor.
use
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The government has also handed out £5.5 million to companies using robots in new applications.
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After clearing the area, police used a robot to detonate the device, estimated at more than 4 pounds.
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The best way to use a robot is to help an existing workforce improve manufacturing reliability and quality.
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So although many researchers had tested muscle performance in the lab, nobody had ever put them to use in a robot .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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assembly line robots
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One astronaut used the space shuttle's robot arm to pick up an 1800-pound satellite from space.
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With the flick of a switch, the robot picks up the bomb, carries it away from buildings, and blows it up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An animal is made A robot can do many different things from taking care of a baby to building a spaceship.
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Brooks has another small robot in mind that lives in the corner of your living room or under the sofa.
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Costs were increased; the quality of the robots went down; and delivery of the machines was disrupted.
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Emerging from Pathfinder will be a 45-pound, solar-powered robot rover called Sojourner.
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In this game, you must save the people from the robots.
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It expects to sell, in two or three years, intelligent robots capable of limited judgement.
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Just watch out: the robots take no prisoners.
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Without the robots the company could not have coped with the Ford contract.