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摘要

People commonly attach names to machines, from cars to pcs, especially if they use them regularly. Robots are proving no exception. Floor-cleaning robots get named, as do the bomb-defusal robots that have been deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. And when they break down or get blown up, their users have even been known to mourn.rnRobots are getting more capable in leaps and bounds. Some now have visual systems that combine digital cameras with image-processing software to allow them to work out what they are looking at, and decide what to do next. The robotic rovers sent to Mars are able to plot their own courses around rocks in order to reach a specified destination, for example.