Arakelyan and Vardanyan possessed two loaded firearms, a GPS device pre-programmed with ATM locations and eight mobile telephones.
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Traditional automation follows a pre-programmed formula based on set conditions and infrastructure settings.
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Furthermore, Napster provides personally tailored recommendations and playlists, channels and music features pre-programmed by their team of music experts.
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Many animals are pre-programmed with almost all the information they will ever need, yet a human child is almost a blank slate.
Throw it, and its motor engages, setting it to fly a pre-programmed route or a path guided by remote control.
The drones can fly a pre-programmed route at a maximum elevation of 200m (656ft) for up to 90 minutes, officials say.
Razer's own Synapse software still allows the user to create sets of pre-programmed keys, each with a custom icon and specific task.
Some of the avatars have a sensor that activates the messages when someone is close by, others repeat their pre-programmed speeches on a loop.
The theory is that the brain is pre-programmed to encourage us to eat high-energy foods in order to give us the best chance of survival.
The patches are also pre-programmed to recognize whether they are configured as a bag, a scarf or a pair of curtains and to execute functions accordingly.
At this stage, the robots are pre-programmed, but a future goal is to make them autonomous and to increase the number of collaborative units working as one.
The research team hopes the simulated bee brain will produce a robot that can make decisions about what it senses rather than just carry out pre-programmed tasks.
Their mission is to facilitate collaborative tasks such as problem solving, exception handling, consensus building, and innovative brainstorming, tasks that cannot be pre-programmed into structured processes or workflows.
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Pre-programmed cleaning cycles allow consumers to choose between floor-only cleaning or floor, wall and waterline cleaning, a necessary chore that many pool owners just don't want to do manually.
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Just hours after Instagram, a mobile app that lets users layer pre-programmed filters over their photos to achieve maximum hipness, launched on Google's Android operating system Tuesday, the snark began.
The main feature of Vodafone Radio DJ allows customers to "train" the pre-programmed radio channels to their own personal taste by pressing a button to indicate that they "like" or "dislike" a song.
It actually comes pre-programmed with a game controller script, so you can plug it into your computer and start playing as soon as you open the box (requires the free Super Tux Cart videogame).
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The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.
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Designed and built with both casual and serious FPS gaming in mind, the MAG II features 3 pre-programmed sensitivity options and is the only gun controller to incorporate Motion Sensing and Gyroscopic Induction movement tracking.
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In a statement, Nasa said the problem had been detected on Tuesday, when the telescope went into a pre-programmed "safe mode" which kicks in "if the observatory has trouble knowing where it should point", Mr Grunsfeld told AFP news agency.
Dubbed the "Bo Series, " these four bots sport the ability to walk and turn, move and grip with their arms, dozens of pre-programmed functions such as picking up objects, dancing, burping, whistling, and a kicking out a fair selection of " Kung Fu moves, " not to mention the ability to dictate your new friend with an IR remote.
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As with the second generation the vehicle can be pre-cooled or pre-heated as required for a programmed departure time when it is connected to the power network.
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Or malware can be programmed to phone home to a particular domain which can change on a pre-determined schedule.
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