Sentences with phrase «of robot war»

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark follows the story of both sides of the robot war as they battle over the fabled «Dark Spark».

The complex issues of robot war that Chris Baraniuk discusses (15 November, p 38) can be boiled down to three...

Not exact matches

«Futurarmy soldiers will wait by their machines of war as these fantastic robot spies, called Owls, report on the location of enemy concentrations and installations.»

Hitch said that when the company asked customers to describe the robot, «nobody realized it was two meters tall» because they focused on the smaller robot body (resembling the Star Wars cylindrical robot R2 - D2) and not its tower, which comprises the bulk of the robot's height of around 6.5 feet.

The use of robots and detailed planning has become routine since the Cold War, so «the industry has evolved,» he added.

«You know, Disney had a huge hit in this space last year - as a licensor, with the BB - 8 droid,» he said of the little spherical Star Wars robot that's controlled remotely via a mobile app.

To stave off fear of the dark, I staged a filibuster and told an hour long story that was pretty much Star Wars meets King Arthur, but with fairies and talking flowers and an evil dragon that melts robots to make jewelry.

We started with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd's new education on the power of internet politics, but we went much farther afield, including ruminations on the nature of a post-manufacturing America... yep, we did some good, old - fashioned nerding out (in which the eternal subject of a genocidal war of robots vs. humans did of course come up).

If voters could wave a wand and get rid of any one political tool, I'd bet you a hefty sum that it'd be robocalls, and not just because they're a clear psychwar precursor of the coming genocidal war of robots against humanity.

When robots fight in place of soldiers, will wars have fewer civilian casualties?

Kingston University London experts will explore how an artificial vision system inspired by the human eye could be used by robots of the future — opening up new possibilities for securing footage from deep forests, war zones and even distant planets.

From bloodless wars (fought with cyborg - controlled robots) to apparent mind reading, the cyborg age could change the meaning of being human and thrust us into another evolutionary realm.

As The New Cool by Neal Bascomb shows, classroom robot wars can inspire the celebration of invention

The torpedo - shaped robot, nicknamed Gudgeon after a Second World War submarine, spent the first month of the field campaign surveying the entire sea floor north of Crete's main harbour, Heraklion, for any lumps and bumps that might signal an ancient wreck.

When robots fight in place of soldiers, will wars have fewer casualties?

Gort was inducted into the Hall of Fame for its lasting influence on the perception of robots, and inspiring the contemplation of how they may be used to effect both war and peace.

For now, though, humans make the kill decisions (see «World War R: Rise of the killer robots «-RRB-.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is exploring how to endow robots and other military equipment with the self - sufficiency to function independently amid the explosions and changing landscapes of a war zone.

Anybody who has ever seen the movie Star Wars remembers the scene in which the robot R2 - D2 projects a 3D movie of Princess Leia imploring Obi - Wan Kenobi for help.

McAleer describes the study as fascinating, saying that it reminds him of an oft - quoted Jedi mind trick from Star Wars, when Obi Wan Kenobi saves his robot friends simply by telling the stormtroopers firmly «these aren't the droids you're looking for».

In a battlefield exercise about three years ago at Fort Benning, Georgia, one where many new technologies including robots and new UAVs and wearable computers and all of those things were being tested in a war game, an Army captain leading one of the teams was asked which of these technologies he would want to take with him to combat today.

«It turns into a constant tug of war between the person and the robot,» explains Billy Gallagher, a recent Georgia Tech Ph.D. graduate in robotics who led the project.

Star Wars» C - 3PO is the prototype of the helpful robot in the house.

More sophisticated versions of the code might someday give a robot an artificial conscience, based on standard laws of war and on guidelines such as the Army Field Manual and the Geneva Conventions.

Although legislation did not specify that bots be autonomous, Peter Singer, director of the Brookings Institution's 21st Century Defense Initiative project and author of a recent book on military robots, Wired for War, calls the push toward autonomy real and pressing.

Fans of new Star Wars releases can't help but love little BB - 8 and now you can have your morning coffee with the spunky round robot.

Way way before the likes of Wall - E and the recent Chappie there was Johnny 5 (Number 5), a prototype military robot built for use in the Cold War against the Ruskies (not really of course).

He wanted to combine those themes and to tell it through the gaze of a young boy who pairs up with an unstable war - robot.

In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus — a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War.

In this episode, meet Harmony, the world's first artificially intelligent sex robot; a woman who spends her days and nights uploading her mind to the algorithm; and a family whose lives were torn apart by over a decade of war - only to be saved by virtual reality.

Play as one - of - four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.

A gigantic, human - hating killing machine is sent back in time to kill the woman who will one day give birth to the savior of humanity in the future human vs. robot wars.

Snyder's passion clearly lies with creating vast worlds where retro - fitted war - planes can take on fire - breathing dragons and hot girls in fishnet stockings can mow down a train car full of enemy robots.

With its customizable World War I themed mechs used to fight hordes of robot televisions.

World War - E (in which a tiny robot rolls around and watches Hello Dolly and then smashes the doubloons out of everything in sight)

Written by Ehren Kruger, who penned the previous two «Transformers» movies, and directed by Bay, who has directed each installment but says this fourth one will be his last, «Extinction» introduces a new human protagonist in Mark Wahlberg, playing a mechanic who gets caught in the middle of an ongoing war between rival clans of shape - shifting alien robots.

Sam Witwicky is having a personal crisis, he's thrown into the middle of the Autobot vs. Decepticon war, and ultimately he has to run through the middle of battling robots in slow motion to save the Earth... for a third time.

The war has also caused the source of life to these transforming robots to be extremely scarce as Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) is leading the Autobots foray to leave this planet in search of peace and more Energon.

The robot, named Atom, has refined movements, soulful blue eyes (it's sort of a butchered version of Star Wars's C - 3PO) and a unique «mirroring» capacity, allowing it to copy exactly what its human handler does.

When Optimus Prime (voice of Peter Cullen) travels to the lunar surface to bring back his former leader, Sentinel Prime (Leonard Nimoy), with several «space bridge» pillars, a plan is fomented that may bring the robots back to the brink of war again — with the measly humans once again caught in the middle.

The robots reminded me a lot of «War of the Worlds.»

That career would include a Western in which Dern became the only person to kill John Wayne onscreen («The Cowboys»), a thriller in which he blew up the Super Bowl («Black Sunday»), a sci - fi drama that introduced little robots five years before «Star Wars» brought us R2D2 («Silent Running»), a Francis Ford Coppola - written version of «The Great Gatsby,» a Vietnam drama for which he received an Oscar nomination («Coming Home») and, more recently, an Emmy - nominated run on the HBO series «Big Love.»

A chance encounter with another orphan of the kaiju war, genius robot pilot - wannabe Amara Namani (Cailee Spaeny) results in both being arrested and inducted into the Pan Pacific Defense Corps just in time to battle another monster incursion as well as mysterious rogue robots in a subplot that's more predictable than it seems to realize.

Iron Man's secret weapon dwells underneath the high - tech robot suit and the whiz - bang special effects: We can win the war on terror, the movie suggests, with the force of Robert Downey Jr.'s personality alone.

From Keiji Inafune (Mega Man, Dead Rising) and the makers of Metroid Prime, ReCore blends the magic of Star Wars, desolation of Wall - E and exploration of Journey, following one of the last surviving humans with nothing but a series of quirky mechanical robots to help her survive.

So along comes this delayed sequel, set 10 years after the events of the original and featuring Star Wars star John Boyega as the new swinging dick in Jaeger (a.k.a. giant - ass - robot) combat.

Transformers: War for Cybertron takes players to the final moments of the grand civil war that will determine the survival of the entire Transformers race. Fans will be able to explore the Transformers war - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to surviWar for Cybertron takes players to the final moments of the grand civil war that will determine the survival of the entire Transformers race. Fans will be able to explore the Transformers war - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to surviwar that will determine the survival of the entire Transformers race. Fans will be able to explore the Transformers war - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to surviwar - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to surviWar for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to survive.

The plot is a jam - packed muddle, but the basic strokes are that, in the war - torn California of 2029, human resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke) is about to stamp out the evil artificial intelligence system Skynet, but before he can, Skynet sends an assassin robot called a T - 800 (Brett Azar's body with Arnold Schwarzenegger's younger face CGI'd on) back in time to 1984.

Discover from Kenny Baker the challenge of acting in Star Wars while inside the body of R2D2, and learn how Anthony Daniels was drawn to the role of C - 3PO by concept art modeled closely on the robot from the silent classic Metropolis.

Astro Boy does contain several nods to its Japanese origins with the inclusion of a couple of giant robots and the sort of mass metropolitan destruction that features so prominently in post-World War II Japanese popular culture.