This changed radically in the late 1970s when several big Japanese conglomerates began producing similar industrial robots.
His long-term vision is for computers to produce robots by specifying both the mechanical bodies and the neural networks to control them.
Tokyo believes it is far more profitable to produce robots than radishes or rutabagas.
The current East German champions have never known anything but an ideology that forcibly de-emphasized the individual, and sought to produce identical technological robots.
The project has produced robots which are able to learn mobility, progressing from basic crawling to stair climbing.
The resulting robots built more space factories that in turn produced better robots.
On planet Quartu, an assembly line is producing large, destructive robots when suddenly there is an error, and a small, curious robot emerges.
I have heard once that there were early attempts made to produce robots with four legs and two arms.
Mass produced robots of a low level of intelligence, that'd make sense.
Other than the robotic jockeys, the factory also produces robots for the defense, aviation and fire-fighting industry.