But it was not until a few years ago that laboratories related to human perception, humanoid robotics, spoken language translation, motor control, and computational neuroscience started to develop.
But in some cases, and you've heard today, [CEO] Patrick [Sobalvarro] from Veo Robotics speak — and [Veo is] actually giving robotic arms perception sensors to allow people and robots to work together — all his insights came because he came from industry.
Even the robotic spoken-word part towards the end is eventually washed away by a warm synthetic breeze.
So Haunted starts out as a minimal, weirdly robotic spoken-word section before morphing into the percussive, doom-laden second half.
You can also type it in and let a robotic voice speak your message for you.
During the DDoS attacks, a group of Anons including Gregg Housh uploaded a video to YouTube in which a robotic voice speaks on behalf of Anonymous, telling the "leaders of Scientology" that "For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind for the laughs we shall expel you from the Internet".
Every line is delivered in a robotic, high-pitched whine, spoken so quickly that you are left straining to keep up.
Despite a group portfolio that includes Yahoo Japan, the country's third-largest mobile carrier, and a humanoid robotics unit, Son has spoken of his hunger to explore "a few more crazy ideas", funded by the $18bn war chest that SoftBank accumulated by offloading some of its assets, including part of a stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.
Whether a child's gift list includes a hand-held organizer that takes snapshots or a robotic toddler that speaks better than some parents, all the prospective items face the same test: Is it cool?
The unexpected sacrifice has drawn attention to the problems facing Marcel Ospel, the chairman, as he deals with an investment bank that has failed in its efforts to become, in robotic Swiss bankers' speak, "best in class".UBS has a global investment bank and is the world's biggest manager of other people's money.
Lewandowski is robotic -- he speaks like Trump's other talking-heads, highly disciplined in machine like staccato fashion about "Mr. Trump".
