The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.The volunteers were asked to apply ratings from dozens of scales to each video: machinelike to humanlike, synthetic to real and so on.
Rising anti-German sentiment may be unpleasant, but it is a price worth paying to get change.The infernal machineLike so much in the euro crisis, the emphasis on structural reforms has come late.
With superfluous motion eliminated, the worker, following a machinelike routine, became much more productive.
May 22 , 1925Fribourg, Switzerland August 30 , 1991Jean Tinguely, (born May 22 , 1925 Fribourg, Switz. died Aug. 30, 1991, Bern), Swiss sculptor and experimental artist, noted for his machinelike kinetic sculptures that destroyed themselves in the course of their operation.
For the 18th-century Protestant Apologist William Paley and his followers, the machinelike nature of biological organisms could be explained only by positing a divine designer of all life.
Jean Tinguely, (born May 22 , 1925 Fribourg, Switz. died Aug. 30, 1991, Bern), Swiss sculptor and experimental artist, noted for his machinelike kinetic sculptures that destroyed themselves in the course of their operation.
One of Weber's contemporaries, the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels, vigorously disputed Weber's claim that organizations would pursue official objectives in machinelike fashion.
Paley's teleology was undermined in the 19th century by the emergence of evolutionary theory, which was able to explain the machinelike nature of biological organisms as having come about entirely through efficient causation in a long process of natural selection.
An aloof, intense player nicknamed "the Hawk," Hogan possessed a swing regarded as technically perfect and almost machinelike in consistency.
In this age of René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, and Louis XIV, each of whom in his different way was determined to reduce the world to order, the military ideal was to achieve maximum reliability and efficiency by training troops to operate in a machinelike manner.
With unnecessary motion eliminated, the worker, following a machinelike routine, became far more productive.
