Sentences with phrase «by humanoid»

«If you want to gain a deeper sense of an influential thinker, bring him into an alien environment where he's beset on all sides by humanoid animals, supermodels, and intermittent fireballs, and see how he engages the unpredictable world around him.»

In robotics, the term «uncanny valley» is used to describe the phenomenon where humans become attracted to, and then strongly repelled by humanoid robots the more «realistic» the robots become.

Harry must then navigate his way out of the area while being chased by humanoid creatures.

Even before I learned of Mizuno's involvement, I was moved by the humanoid's chilling manifestation, and its subsequent wrestle to become visible.

Large airships engage in battle, as the kingdom of Helium battles their perennial enemy Zodanga — both populated by humanoids — led by Sab Than (Dominic West), who has plans to dominate the dying planet.

Nury is likely best known to American comics readers for writing I Am Legion, which was release by Humanoids with art by John Cassady.

The planet was now populated by humanoids, a remarkably resourceful species — perhaps growing a bit flaccid as they indulged in the pleasures of their inventions — but they were basically peaceable, and trusting, perhaps even gullible!

Not exact matches

A new breed of avatar humanoid robots developed by such companies as Honda and Toyota could change the way people interact and work around the world.

Shenzhen - based AI and humanoid robotic company Ubtech has secured $ 820 million in Some Series C funding round, our sister site TechNode Chinese is reporting (in Chinese), setting a new financing record for the largest investment raised in a single round by an AI company.

God so commands all orbital velocities inwardly from the lowly atoms and even outwardly toward issues of all that is made celestially orbital... Our humanoid embodiments of orbital atoms are merely buildings structured just so to be inhabited by godly generations on a scalar dimension unequaled in the inward depths and breadths of spatial reciprocity...

This Pope is just an abnormally normal humanoid... A snippets worth of snapshots and videos all promoting one's self within the television arenas made for psychologically herding those blinded by science and dumbfounded in one's societal constraints... It's 420 somewhere isn't it..?

By the way, Lucy was a monkey, not an early humanoid.

Nor is it likely that if mankind were to become extinct it would be replaced by another «rational» or «humanoid» species.

And the best sci - fi show on television today is Battlestar Galactica, a «reimagining» of a short - lived late - 1970s series about the last remnants of humanity fleeing a genocide perpetrated by their own creations — a race of humanoid robots called Cylons — and searching for our species» last refuge, a mythical planet called Earth.

Their platform is a humanoid robot that sprouts two 60 - pound (27 - kilogram) Whole Arm Manipulators (WAM) made by Cambridge, Mass., — based Barrett Technology, Inc., each tipped with a 2.6 - pound (1.2 - kilogram) three - fingered BarrettHand.

In the original screenplay by Edmund H. North, an alien ambassador named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) arrives in Washington, D.C., in his saucer - shaped spaceship (à la UFO convention of the time) with an eight - foot (2.4 - meter) humanoid robot named Gort (played by the 7 - foot, 7 - inch Lock Martin, who was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when discovered).

It is impossible to overemphasize the potential usefulness of such a device on a visit to France, whose vaguely humanoid populace turns Klingon when confronted by a nonspeaker of their primitive but pretty language.

Minsky, who was heavily influenced by Jack Williamson's The Humanoids, and Isaac Asimov's robot stories in his youth, tried to program Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics into the primitive computers of the 1960s at MIT; he failed, but learned a lot about hierarchical programming in the process.

There are researchers who create robots that move like snakes; some study human movements and functions by making a humanoid robot, and from there they train the robot to play table ice - hockey, dance, and even juggle; some work together to design an electronic wheel chair that can be controlled by the tongue; some are interested in creating a database of human facial expression that can be used in creating animation and facial pattern recognition research.

«Today's most advanced humanoid robots, prosthetic limbs and wearable exoskeletons are limited by motors and hydraulic systems, whose size and weight restrict dexterity, force generation and work capability.»

When people build robots, whether it is a humanoid, a quadruped or a fish, they tend to create very complex mechanisms, and this complexity often works against them by creating multiple points of potential failure, Valdivia y Alvarado says.

A team led by Tony Stentz at Carnegie Mellon University is also taking an odd spin on a humanoid robot.

Their efforts to build humanoid machines vary, but they all bring something to the table; in the end, it is by aggregating the best of these efforts that the new robot generation will emerge.

The SecondHands project is developing a humanoid robot to help human technicians maintain warehouses by handing them tools and even holding ladders.

Gary Speed «One Of Four Men Coached By Barry Bennell Who Took Own Life» The Rake is a creepypasta story featuring a humanoid creature that stalks and attacks people in a manner similar to Slender Man.

The titular character, voiced with a nod to great movie villains of the 30s and 40s by Will Ferrell, is a weedy, blue - skinned humanoid with pronunciation issues from another planet sent to Earth as a baby with only a fish, Minion (David Cross), and a binky for company.

Moreover, such rhetoric overlooks one of the film's Asian performers, and its most unsettling character: an extraterrestrial being played by Ex Machina's Mizuno, named in the film's credits as «the humanoid.»

Natalie Portman (left) and «the humanoid,» played by Sonoya Mizuno, during the climax of «Annihilation.»

Accompanied by composers Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow's aptly titled track «The Alien,» the faceless and wordless humanoid is of indeterminate nature; it rejects interpretation.

When a humanoid figure emerges (played by Keanu Reeves), he's met with the classic «Welcome to our planet» greeting — a bullet.

One fateful evening, some kind of humanoid aquatic creature arrives for study, hauled in by a nefarious government agent played with controlled gonzo by Michael Shannon.

Ex Machina Director: Alex Garland Running time: 110 minutes Certificate: R A young computer programmer is picked to spend time with his company's reclusive CEO, played by Oscar Isaac, who reveals a humanoid robot called Ava who may have her own agenda.

Caleb, it seems, has been hand - picked to chair sessions with Nathan's newest bauble, a synthetic flesh - and - gear humanoid A.I. program named Ava, sveltely embodied by Alicia Vikander.

On the Red Planet called Barsoom by its inhabitants he discovers that he possesses magical powers and becomes entangled in an inter-species war between the green skinned, four armed warriors known as Tharks and the redskinned humanoid factions of Zodanga and Helium.

A genetically enhanced raccoon named Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper, «American Hustle»), and a humanoid tree named Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel, «Fast & Furious 6») know nothing of the orb, they just want a piece of the bounty action put on Quill.

Already warmly embraced by festival audiences in Telluride, Colo., and set to premiere in Toronto on Monday evening, the movie tells of a most remarkable discovery — an amphibious humanoid creature, found somewhere off South America — that is being kept locked in a tank at a U.S. government facility amid the mounting Cold War anxieties of 1962.

Of all the bright, funny, creative things about The Good Place «s vision of the afterlife, the most consistently delightful has been Janet, the automated fact - adminstering humanoid played by D'Arcy Carden with eager helpfulness.

Jackson Ball reviews the fifth episode of Netflix's BoJack Horseman season 2... Episode 5 tackles a fairly meta subject for BoJack Horseman: in a world populated by intelligent, humanoid animals, who gets eaten as food?

«Evangelion» includes some terrific action sequences: In one episode, Shinji and another pilot defeat a humanoid Angel by synchronizing their Evas in a combination of gymnastics and karate movements.

Indeed, Caleb's uber - rich, genius boss, Nathan (played by Oscar Isaac, in what may be the best performance of the year to date), did design a humanoid robot with all of the traits that Caleb most desires through the secret collection of data from Caleb's computers, cell phones, etc. (there was a special emphasis put upon Caleb's «porn profile» when it came to designing the robot, Ava's, face).

Graphically, there are some standout moments as the golden sun glistens through fields of corn and sand coloured farmhouses are silhouetted by bright blue sky, but it's mostly uninspired stuff and not something I expected to report in a game about mutated humanoid corn.

Inside, Eliza becomes fascinated with a tank in which swims a humanoid amphibian (performed by Doug Jones, a frequent collaborator of Del Toro's, having done movement work in «Pan's Labyrinth» and «Hellboy II»).

The 31st Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) continued its tradition of honoring the year's standout performers by presenting one of this year's Virtuosos awards to Alicia Vikander for her stand - out work as the A.I. humanoid Ava in Ex Machina and as Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl.

Is being pursued by a lanky, expressionless humanoid worth it in the name of entertainment?

Alicia Vikander plays Ava, an artificial intelligence humanoid designed by Nathan that Caleb is instructed to test, to see just how real she really is.

Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).

Performed by Doug Jones («The Bye Bye Man») underneath all the prosthetics, this monster is an amphibian humanoid known as the Asset, captured by scientists from the Amazon (the one in South America) to help with the U.S. space program.

Following a reclusive computer - genius billionaire (Oscar Isaac) enlisting the help of an employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to see if his new humanoid A.I. (Alicia Vikander) can pass for human, the film finds new life in the often - tired robot / singularity theme, thanks to airtight writing, three terrific performances (Isaac in particular stands out) and direction marked by a craft and confidence that belies Garland's first - timer status.

They include the green - skinned assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana, hiding her looks far less than she did in Avatar) as well as cynical, genetically engineered upright raccoon bounty hunter Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper, doing his best Baby Herman) and his tree - like humanoid protector of very few words, Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel).

«Smurfs: The Lost Village,» the third theatrical feature centering on tiny blue humanoid forest creatures beloved by small children, has enough bright colors and slapstick humor to enchant its target audience.