The Hero robot series was too difficult to produce and sell, and was soon terminated.

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He was famous for his fiction from the Foundation series to I Robot, but his science books were his masterpieces of lucidity.

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The latest special in that series, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III, will be released July 12 on DVD and Blu-Ray, and includes three hours of bonus material.

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Since RRM operations began in 2011, Dextre has performed three series of tests to show how a robot could service satellites, which were designed never to be opened in space.

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Robot Chicken also gave birth to another popular franchise: a series of animated parodies of the Star Wars films.

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Given that the last time Mattel tried the Barbie robot army approach, a FOX producer discovered them and created the television series The Swan, Mattel's designers came up with the Juice Box.

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Finally, we covered a set of incredible LEGO creations -- from a life-size Wall-E robot made from Lego Mindstorms to a computer built from plastic bricks and a series of amazing Lego animals that invaded the Bronx Zoo.

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While researching this series on the domestic origins of technology, I discovered the Magimix by Robot-Coupe.

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