The robotic looks of the defendants who said nothing, showed no emotion, went to prison with all their buddies, their institution of higher learning, coming out much more accomplished criminals.

"When the ship gets Borgified, everything is changed into more of a squared-off, robotic look with sharp edges but rounded images," he explained.

"We'll have to return the loot to the sources from whence it came," I said, and was pleased at the two shocked robotic looks and one alien stare of despair.

And strange as it must sound, though the soundtrack for her show on Monday sang of women, her models possessed a robotic look.

He was given a drastically more robotic look and his powers were vastly changed.

"I agree," said Rollo, "that it has a robotic look about it, but cross my heart and hope to die, I've never seen one like it."

Their faces were obscured by visored helmets - ocular lenses where the features should have been -which gave them a blank, robotic look.

His image broods over the motorway in an advertisement for BT, a 40-foot giant caught in mid stride, his futuristic metallic limbs giving him an unworldly, robotic look.

At Mugler, for every futuristic robotic look, there are soft lilac chiffon prints with matching jackets or even blue chiffon sunsuits cascading with flowers.