Someone to clean your house a few times a month, take your kids somewhere fun while you work, a client care assistant to take over tedious scheduling tasks.
The vessel looked crafted on the fly by an amateur carpenter with an assortment of light hardware, but Mr. Trombley said building it provides relief from weekdays spent poring over tedious legislation that reads like "a mixture of Milton and V.C.R. instructions".
I can't remember the last time I read a theater review without skipping over tedious paragraphs of story recap.
Robots have since taken over many tedious and hazardous tasks, but it's only in recent years that they have been assigned to test-track duty.
Developed by a team led by professor Paul Newman at Oxford University, the new system has been installed in a Nissan Leaf electric car and tested on private roads around the university, will halt for pedestrians, and could take over the tedious parts of driving such as negotiating traffic jams or regular commutes.
This will be enough for our cybernetic keepers, who will take over the tedious business of working for a living, in a society that will become ever more obsessed with humans as we take up our rightful place as loving, mischievous companions to technology.
I'm not going to go over the tedious details of my exchange with Verizon, which had to do with signing up for phone, Internet and television service on its FIOS network.
Very quickly I learned to avoid the long, popular, pedantic videos, which invariably describe themselves as "documentaries" and tend to consist of one person in a dank little room, trying his best to sound reasonable (and it is almost always a he) as he drones about composite photos of Earth from space over a tedious slideshow.
Very quickly I learned to avoid the long, popular, pedantic videos, which invariably describe themselves as "documentaries", and tend to consist of one person in a dank little room, trying his best to sound reasonable (and it is almost always a he) as he drones about composite photos of Earth from space over a tedious slideshow.
The 2 hours it took the research team to obtain scans of OsO4-stained embryos, with a 27-μm isometric resolution, is a vast improvement over the tedious techniques of histological sectioning of early embryos, which needs to be done with painstaking precision and takes 1 to 3 working days to complete.
The National Football League's annual draft, which took place last week, is sixteen hours long, over-hyped, and tedious to watch.
