humanoid

They don't try to look humanoid, like so many sci-fi robots.

Would it exclaim "Got the humanoid, got the intruder!

Yes, those humanoid targets are made for practicing the shooting of humans.

Of all the bad stuff in the horror movies, the only one that is not directly around right now is the strange looking humanoid.

Do we learn anything by making humanoid-looking little robots out of RC servos?

There are generally tons of tool-using monsters in fantasy settings that aren't even humanoid.

Almost every factory has a robotic system, but they're not the sci-fi bipedal humanoid AI that people imagine we would have.

Convincing humanoid androids with enough space for a nuke are most definitely not a current 2012 destructive technology.

At that power density you can build walking robots which are humanoid and faster and more powerful with enough weight budget left over to carry along power packs.

They can patent the inner working of the robot that they came up with, but they can't patent all possible humanoid robots, regardless of how they're implemented on the inside.

Announcing Google Android, the internet-connected humanoid assistant you never knew you needed.

The first was an autonomous humanoid robot that, given an apartment number, could walk through a city, find the building, ride the elevator or walk up the steps and knock on that apartment door.

Any novel mechanical workings that make a humanoid robot possible would certainly be patentable, however.

> I think that there are way worse dangers than "humanoid bombs" Yes, I am much more concerned about the scope for ubiquitous surveillance and systematic domination that even fairly modest gains in AI will allow.

The point is to satirize intelligent lifeforms less than 9 light-minutes from Sol, who think "alien" and immediately think "A bipedal humanoid with colorful skin and Buddhist-by-way-of-Native-American spiritual practices.