Sentences with phrase «like humanoid»

I had become like the humanoid at the core of that spiked sculpture, the hoops its nuts writ large, my sight lines its spikes, the patches of floor and relative clarity of its rectangle my prosthesis.

Caim is a soldier fighting for the Union army, which is currently engaged in a war with an empire of zombie - like humanoid creatures who take their orders from entities known as the «Watchers».

Namely, a bird like humanoid character:

In one timeline, Rontaro Koss, a bison - like humanoid, heads out on a campaign of revenge against the Empire after his son is murdered by loyalists.

And so initially when we were thinking about the Divine Beasts, we thought about something that could be seen from afar, and maybe like a humanoid form, but then because these Champions were controlling Divine Beasts, we thought well maybe it would be interesting if the Divine Beasts themselves were a dungeon.

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).

Warlock, also known simply as Him, is a Christ - like humanoid who was a significant player in defeating Thanos.

To evade the ever - persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits - Rocket, a gun - toting raccoon, Groot, a tree - like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge - driven Drax the Destroyer.

To evade his enemies, Quill forges an uneasy truce with Rocket, a gun - toting raccoon; Groot, a tree - like humanoid; the deadly assassin Gamora; and the revenge - driven Drax.

To evade the ever - persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits — Rocket, a gun - toting raccoon, Groot, a tree - like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge - driven Drax the Destroyer.

But, yes, the Israeli security barrier meant to keep Palestinians out also works on zombies, at least until Gerry gets there and the zombies, behaving increasingly like humanoid ants or termites, form a sort of boiling mass and come teeming over the wall.

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie - like humanoids who have taken control of the pla... [MORE]

Unlike other titles Warriors All - Stars actually wants to give you a story to care about, one where cat - like humanoids pull your heroes from their respective origins, putting them against the games core villains whom are threatening these creatures «fountain» that keeps them alive.

Not exact matches

Many, like Softbank's Pepper, took more - or-less humanoid form and were capable of verbal interactions.

First, there was that lone, cranelike arm, an appealingly simple approach, and one that followed another of Brooks's maxims: Robots should not be humanoid just for the sake of making them look like humans.

In 2011, NASA sent up a humanoid robot named Robonaut to perform simple tasks like cleaning handrails, Newsweek notes,.

Although they may not be the type of humanoid robots you imagine, roaming the streets like a scene out of the movie «I, Robot»; chatbots are on the march nonetheless.

So, it looks like an ape, it has a head like an ape, it has arms like an ape, it has shoulder blades like an ape — It is obviously an ape, not a human, pre-human or humanoid.

If you did not know (7 million years ago) and it scared you then maybe you think it is a big humanoid like Thor... but even a non-meteorologist knows what it is.

I often see them in the spirit, sometimes very vividly, other times they appear as vague cloud - like or humanoid forms.

For instance, before the discovery of any other humanoid species it was considered truth that we were the only types of primate alive like us, ever!

I replied to Dawkins that if something like a smart, technological, bipedal humanoid has a certain level of inevitability because of how evolution unfolds, then it would have happened more than once here.

[Harvard University biologist] Ed Wilson gave at least some time to the speculation that, if it had not been for the end - Cretaceous catastrophe, dinosaurs might have produced something like the attached [referring to paleontologist Dale A. Russell's illustrated evolutionary projection of how a bipedal dinosaur might have evolved into a reptilian humanoid].

Some, like MIT's humanoid Helios and CHIMP from Carnegie Mellon University, carry out many steps automatically.

«Eventually, using the fundamentals of this discovery, it may be possible to build a 3D liquid metal humanoid on demand — like the T - 1000 Terminator but with better programming,» Kalantar - zadeh said.

Now I don't think we'll run into humanoid - like creatures in every planetary system.

I would like to suggest a few follow - up experiments that might shed more light on the «uncanny valley» — the feeling of unease when faced with a humanoid robot (12 January, p 35).

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.

That's why some of the entrants in recent humanoid robot Grand Challenges have looked less human and more like a cross between an orang - utan and a wolf spider.

The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms.»

On the opposite extreme, independently operated coiled polymer muscles having a diameter less than a human hair could bring life - like facial expressions to humanoid companion robots for the elderly and dexterous capabilities for minimally invasive robotic microsurgery.

Synthetic muscles are already being explored for use in prosthetic limbs, RoboCop - like exoskeletons for soldiers, and humanoid robots.

Even if our species looked like something else altogether, we might still end up building humanoid robots to serve us because the benefit would be so great.

Robots, common in manufacturing jobs, increasingly spread to office professions: Humanoid or human - like robots already perform tasks in hotels, in stores, and in restaurants.

TENTACLED monsters, pale skinny humanoids, shimmery beings of pure energy... When it comes to the question of what alien life forms might look like, we are free to let our imagination roam.

The scientists think this could be useful for a number of applications that need muscle fibers, whether getting the faces of humanoid robots to move with more human - like expressions or getting prosthetic limbs better muscle.

Not even vaguely humanoid and still managing to land squarely in the middle of the Uncanny Valley, these crazy techno - tentacles from Stanford can grow and propel themselves like living vines.

Thanks to these light, airy, breathable separates, I look forward to emerging from the bowels of New York looking more humanoid, and less like a puddle.

Splatoon is a third - person shooter video game that centers around characters known as Inklings who can transform between humanoid and squid - like forms.

More recently its horror label, Scream Factory, released remasters of the likes of Carpenter, Craven, Dante, and Cohen, as well as a wide range of Eighties exploitation fare and sundry titles from Hammer (The Vampire Lovers), New World (Barbara Peeters» rapist sea - mutant shocker Humanoids From the Deep), and AIP.

Fortunately, it looks like he'll have a more humanoid friend to keep him company down in the deep blue sea.

Even when beginning with the entertaining, Roger Corman - produced likes of «The Lady in Red,» «Humanoids from the Deep» and «Battle Beyond the Stars,» this musically - inclined son of a Hollywood production designer showed a keen understanding of thematic melody, and a sheer joy of unbridled scoring well beyond his years — a sound no budget at the time could contain.

Ifrit in Final Fantasy Explorers is beast - like, less humanoid and the first Ghost to fight in the game.

Of course, your head has a rocket attached to the bottom of it, and you can fly around to take control of robotic host bodies, whether humanoid or something a little bit more dog - like.

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).

It looks like everyone's favorite warrior monk will apparently take a break from flesh - eating zombies to deal with humanoid Replicants in 2017.

Needlessly conservative storytelling, crap coloring (maybe that's just me and my art snob friends though), bad comics, rising prices, a lack of speculators, the Hollywood money being exponentially better, companies going for the short gain instead of the long - term gain (I'm looking at you, Humanoids, and your reprinting of comics classics in strictly deluxe formats that are too expensive for the casual reader who needs that stuff and you, Marvel, who can't even keep a trade of a book that's buzzing super hard in print, and you, comic shops, for banging your doofus drum every time somebody does something in digital comics you don't like), and yes, piracy, have all hurt comics.

Since this week's column mentions a Moebius reprint, an oblique dig at the unavailability of his comics in English, a Humanoids release, and something that we all should ignore but it's sadly related to WATCHMEN... I'd like to point out that Mr. Dave Gibbons himself has come out of the blue to support a certain movement that is rapidly approaching 1.000 supporters:

The B - 52's — «Rock Lobster» The Cure — «Just Like Heaven» Doobie Brothers — «China Grove» The Doors — «Break on Through (To the Other Side)» Faith No More — «Midlife Crisis» Foreigner — «Cold As Ice» Ida Maria — «Oh My God» INXS — «Need You Tonight» Jane's Addiction — «Been Caught Stealing» The Jimi Hendrix Experience — «Crosstown Traffic» Joan Jett — «I Love Rock N» Roll» Metric — «Combat Baby» Night Ranger — «Sister Christian» Ozzy Osbourne — «Crazy Train» Paramore — «Misery Business» Phoenix — «Lasso» Queen — «Bohemian Rhapsody» Rilo Kiley — «Portions for Foxes» Roxette — «The Look» Smash Mouth — «Walkin» On The Sun» Tokio Hotel — «Humanoid» The Vines — «Get Free» Whitesnake — «Here I Go Again» The White Stripes — «The Hardest Button to Button» Yes — «Roundabout»

Skyward Sword, on the other hand, had a more flat color palette, but some characters with humanoid proportions looked weird because of certain features native to the art style, like their lips.