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Not long ago, the only time you could see a robot was when you were reading a novel or watching a movie such as Star Wars. Today,   1   a lot of things in science stories have been science facts. Robots are starting to   2   in our everyday lives. These robots have different sizes, shapes and colors. But they all have the same   3   of man-made "  4  ". Leading the robot revolution (革命) are industrial robots that work in factories. Industrial robots can do different kinds of jobs that are often   5   and sometimes dangerous. Robots are also coming to American homes, though not as quickly as they are entering   6  . These robots aren't as friendly and   7   as those you saw in Star Wars. But, their makers say, today's home robots "walk" and sense objects in their own way. They even   8   objects though they may sometimes drop. Well, nobody is   9  .      We may  10  home robots today, but some day they may see and hear  11  than humans do. We  12  can only see certain wave lengths of light and hear certain  13 . That's because the  14  of our eyes and ears are   15 . Robots, however, need not have the same limits  16  we have.      Robots may also be  17  wit devices (装置) that  18  information humans can't. However, to understand   19  their sensing devices pick up is a hard job.      Remember, man-made brains  20  information, including all kinds of data, as zeroes and ones.      Imagine the difficulty in trying to explain to a robot what a football looks like-using only zeroes and ones.

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