Enigmatic Robot Era

Enigmatic Robot Era Science fiction and science fact is getting narrower and narrower. (scenes from “i, Robot”) Robot: You are experiencing a car accident. In i Robot, from Twentieth Century Fox,

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With a strong poison spray aimed at a bunch of flying insects, it's easy to imagine several of them falling together at the same time. Because flies are small and dirty creatures, we do not much care if many die at once. However, when it comes to hum

Robot Is the Star in New Play

WASHINGTON Robots are becoming commonplace in many areas of society -- from manufacturing to medicine to our homes. But now, a robot has taken to the stage, in a British play called Spillikin, where a humanoid robot plays the male companion of a woma

unit9 The memory robot

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SSS 2008-08-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The plague is most famous for killing tens of millions of people all over Europe in the 1300s. Plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. And th

英语流行口语 70.Having a Haircut理发

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快口说英语025

No. 25 Clean the Bathroom 清洁洗手间 Practice Listen and Repeat A 1. Put down a clean bath mat. 铺下干净的浴缸防滑垫。 2. When youre finished cleaning, hang cleaning towels. 当你清洗完成，挂上干净的毛巾。 Conversation 1

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Bar Bet 酒吧的赌博 A guy walks into a bar, stopping to talk to everyone in the bar. As he finishes with each group of people, they all get up and leave and go stand outside the window, looking in. 一个家伙走进酒吧，和里面每个人耳语

Robot Explores Fukushima Reactor

A robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant this week to take pictures of the reactor destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The robot, nicknamed 'The Little Sunfish,' is very small about the size of a loaf of bread.

World’s First Robot College Student Learns About Love

Imagine you are a college student at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. You walk into your philosophy class on the first day of the new term only to find a robot looking you right in the eye. This robot is no huge piece of equipme

Olympic Ready? Robot Skiers Compete in South Korea

As the worlds top athletes competed at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, some robots also showed off their winter sports skills. A ski race involving robots was held recently at the Welli Hilli Park ski area near Pyeongchang. Eight teams built and pro

Japanese Engineer Builds Huge Robot of His Dreams

Japanese engineer Masaaki Nagumo had always dreamed of operating a robot from Mobile Suit Gundam. 日本工程师南云正章（Masaaki Nagumo）一直梦想着操作《机动战士高达》中的机器人。 That is the name of a popular Japanese an

VOA标准英语2011--Spray Detects Hard-to-Find Tumors

Spray Detects Hard-to-Find Tumors Surgeons may soon have a new tool to help locate early-stage cancerous growths; a spray that turns fluorescent green when it comes into contact with tumors. The spray is clear, but contains a non-toxic dye that almos

South Korean Students Learn English from Robot Teacher

Many South Korean families spend thousands of dollars a year on English language education for their children. Students attend private academies(学院) often until late at night everyday. Most such schools hire teachers from abroad, but a team of en

喷雾指甲油来了！史上最快的美甲

My fingers feel as though theyve got frostbite, an abandoned spray can lies on the table and most of my kitchen appears to be dusted in a light frosting of silver. 我的手指好像得了冻疮，一个喷雾器扔在桌上，厨房的大片区域看起

VOA标准英语2009年-Robot Helps Children with Disabilities

Julie Taboh | Washington 08 December 2009 Watch: Taboh report Windows Media | MP4 Cosmobot has made speech therapy fun for Kevin Fitzgerald, 6. He has developmental dyspraxia, a condition which makes it difficult for him to move his mouth and tongue.

Space Shuttle Discovery to Carry Robot on Final Mission

Crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the Space Shuttle Discovery for its final launch, scheduled for Thursday. Among the things it will carry to the International Space Station will be a humanlike robot designed to help astronau

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世博会开幕这几天一直高温不下，仅5月1、2日两天世博园区救护车出动就达到80多次，其中接诊的26个人是中暑。中暑的英文怎么说呢？大家都知道stroke，中风，而中暑就是heat stroke。 那么，中

CCTV9英语新闻：China rolls out more plans in robot industry

Robots are not only for fun and games, it's also a very serious industry in China. On April 6, the Ministry of Industry, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries jointly issued a development plan for the com

CCTV9英语新闻：China's qualification tournament for 2016 Robot WC begins

China's qualifying tournament for the 2016 Robot World Cup has begun in Hefei, the capital of east Chinas Anhui province. Almost 2,000 contestants and 300 teams are taking part in the competition. Robots are playing various roles, from houseworkers a