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Robinson-Dadson curves The Robinson-Dadson curves are one of many sets of equal-loudness contours for the human ear, determined experimentally by D W Robinson and R S Dadson, and reported in a paper entitled "A re-determination of the equal-loudness relations for pure tones" in Br. J.
Robinson-Patman Act The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, ) is a United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination. It grew out of practices in which chain stores were allowed to purchase goods at lower prices than other retailers.
Robinson-Schensted algorithm In mathematics, the Robinson–Schensted algorithm is a combinatorial algorithm, first discovered by Robinson in 1938, which establishes a bijective correspondence between elements of the symmetric group S_n and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It can be viewed as a simple, constructive proof of the combinatorial identity:
Robinsonade Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned enough imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story".
Robinsons-May Robinsons-May was a chain of department stores operating in Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, previously with headquarters in North Hollywood, California. It was a division of Federated Department Stores, having been acquired with Federated's takeover of May Department Stores on August 30 2005.
Robinwood, Little Rock, Arkansas Robinwood is an exclusive residential section of northwest Little Rock, Arkansas, marked by several large, stately homes among a wooded area near the Arkansas River. Some of the homes of Robinwood can be seen along the riverside cliffs approaching the city via Interstate 430 from Maumelle.
Robiola Robiola is an Italian soft-ripened cheese of the Stracchino family, made with varying proportions of cow’s, goat’s milk and sheep’s milk. One theory is that the cheese gets its name from the town of Robbio in the province of Pavia; another that the name comes from the word rubeole (ruddy) because of the color of the seasoned rind.
Robion Kirby Robion Cromwell Kirby is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in low-dimensional topology. He coinvented the Kirby-Siebenmann invariant for classifying the PL-structures on a topological manifold, in which his famous torus trick is fundamental, and proved the fundamental result on the Kirby calculus, a method for describing 3-manifolds and smooth 4-manifolds by surgery on framed links.
Robitussin Robitussin is a brand of cold and cough medicines produced by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare. Robitussin products are available over the counter in many countries worldwide, including the United States and Thailand.
Roblin (electoral division) Roblin is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created by redistribution in 1914, eliminated by redistribution in 1979, and formally ceased to exist with the 1981 provincial election.
Roblin-Russell Roblin-Russell is a former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1979 (with considerable territory from the former riding of Roblin), and was abolished in 1999.
Robo Machines Robo Machines is a short-lived European transforming robot toy-line released by Bandai from late 1992 to 1993. It was meant as an attempt to revive the European Robo Machine toy-line that ran from 1982 to approximately 1988.
Robo-Hunter Robo-Hunter was a recurring strip in the British Comic 2000 AD, initially written by John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson. The series starred Sam Slade, a laconic, ageing, cigar-smoking bounty hunter of robots that have gone renegade.
Robo-Ky The are characters in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, making their first appearance in several editions of the second game, Guilty Gear X, as a secret mode for Ky, then later in the third game, Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival as a secret character, and then in Guilty Gear XX#Reload as a normal character, having undergone major changes. There are multiple Robo-Kys in the storyline, but they are all the same.
Robocon Robocon is an annual robot contest starting from 2002 organized by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), just for university, college and polytechnic students in the Asia-Pacific region addition to them students from Egypt. Under a common set of rules, participants will compete with their peers in other countries to create a robot using their creative and technological abilities in an open competition.
Robocopy Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy" as it calls itself, is a command-line file copying tool introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, but which beforehand has always been available with the Windows Resource Kit, free to licensed users of Windows. Robocopy is designed for reliable copy or mirroring of entire folders of any size ensuring all NTFS attributes and properties are copied (except security-related ones unless specifically requested), particularly over network connections that are subject to disruption or outages.
Robocrane The Robocrane® is a kind of manipulator resembling a Stewart platform but using an octahedral assembly of cables instead of struts. Like the Stewart platform, the Robocrane has six degrees of freedom (x, y, z, pitch, roll, & yaw).
RobocupJunior RoboCupJunior is an educational initiative, started in 1998, which organizes local, regional and international robotic event for primary and secondary school children and also kids who do not have the resources to get involved in the senior leagues. Its focus in the junior leagues is to educate kids.
RoboCop RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven. It spawned two sequels, several comic books, multiple video games, two animated series, dozens of action figures and two television series, all featuring a cyborg police officer.
RoboCop versus The Terminator (comic book) RoboCop versus The Terminator is a four-issue comic book crossover limited series written by Frank Miller that was published in 1992 by Dark Horse Comics. It was pencilled by Walt Simonson and inked by Steve Oliff, who also jointly illustrated the covers.
RoboCop: Alpha Commando RoboCop: Alpha Commando is an animated series based on the character of RoboCop, it was the second animated version of the character, following on from RoboCop: The Animated Series in the 1980s. The series premiered on September 7, 1998, and ran until February 3, 1999.
RoboCop: The Animated Series RoboCop: The Animated Series is an animated series produced in the 1980s by Marvel Animation, and is based on the character and events of the movie RoboCop. As of 2006, none of the show's 12 episodes have been released onto Region 1 DVD.
RoboCup RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot Soccer World Cup".
RoboDynamics RoboDynamics Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes commercial hardware and software components that enable robotic Telepresence. RoboDynamics is best known for world's first ever Robotic Personal Assistant MILO, an anthropomorphic robotic platform.
Roboform Roboform is a proprietary software password management program developed by Siber Systems. It is available for many web browsers, but mainly supports Internet Explorer (and other browsers based on it), Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape, as well as support for Palm and PocketPC.
RoboHelp RoboHelp is a Help authoring tool (HAT) created by the eHelp Corporation and now owned by Adobe Systems following the acquisition of Macromedia. The software is used by technical writers to create computer help files in various formats, including:
Robochrist Industries Robochrist Industries is a robotic performance art troupe most notably recognized for its performances in and around Los Angeles during the years 1997 - 2005. The performances feature large radio-controlled robots moving among and eventually destroying props and set-pieces intended to convey specific theatrical narratives.
Robopon 2 Robopon 2: Ring Version and Cross Version (similar to how Pokemon is broken up into Blue and Red) is a game designed by Atlus in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance. The Robopon series of video games appears to be loosely-based off of Nintendo's Pokémon series and is often considered to be a Pokémon clone.
Robopound Robopound, typically referred to colloquially as Robo, is a fast-paced team drinking game originally created in the 1970's at Princeton University where it still maintains enormous popularity. To a limited extent, robo is played at some other universities (including Stanford University), and is highly popular in Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School NJ.
Roboraptor Roboraptor is a robotic toy invented by Mark Tilden and distributed by Wow Wee Toys International. It is the successor to the Robosapien robot and uses motion technology based on realistic biomechanics that give it fluid and natural movements.
Roborovski hamster Roborovskis (Phodopus roborovski) are the smallest and fastest of all hamsters and are commonly kept as pets. Distinguishing characteristics of the Roborovskis are the white spots where their eyebrows would be, and the lack of a dorsal stripe commonly seen in dwarf hamsters.
Robosaurus Robosaurus is a transforming robotic dinosaur created by inventor Doug Malewicki in 1989 and is currently owned and operated by Monster Robots, Inc. Robosaurus is modeled after a Tyrannosaurus rex and has hydraulically activated arms, grasping claws, and jaws, as well as a flame thrower set up in the head to give the effect of breathing fire out of its nostrils.
Robostory Robostory is a French cartoon series that was created by Michel Pillyser and Bernard Kessler for the French production company Belokapi and first televised in 1985. It ran for 52 episodes that were each 13 minutes long.
RoboSapien RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with moves, and also can be controlled by an infrared remote control included with the toy, or by either a personal computer equipped with an infrared transmitter, and an infrared transmitter-equipped PDA.
Robot A robot is an electro-mechanical or bio-mechanical device or group of devices that can perform autonomous or preprogrammed tasks. A telerobot may act under the direct control of a human, such as the robotic arm on a space shuttle, or autonomously under the control of a programmed computer.
Robot (Doctor Who) Robot is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 28, 1974 to January 18, 1975. It opened Season 12 and was the first full serial to feature Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, as well as Ian Marter as new companion Harry Sullivan.
Robot combat Robot Combat is a hobby in which two or more radio-controlled machines use varied methods of destroying or disabling the other robot. The machines are referred to as robots, though some will argue that they are not 'robots' as they are not autonomous.
Robot Carnival Robot Carnival is an Japanese anime film released in 1987. It is very akin to Disney's Fantasia in feeling and setup, in that it is a collection of nine shorts by several different directors, put together, and containing only music (albeit a few exceptions).
Robot Commando Robot Commando (ISBN 0-14-032152-7) is a single player roleplaying gamebook written by Steve Jackson, illustrated by Gary Mayes and originally published in 1986. It forms part of Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 22 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the Wizard reissuing.
Robot dog Robot dog refers to a robot in the shape of a dog, or one which has other canine characteristics (such as a barking dog burglar alarm activated by disturbance of an infra-red beam). Such dogs have appeared often both in fiction, and in the form of toys.
Robot Dreams Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories, intended largely to show a series of Asimov robot-inspired drawings by Ralph McQuarrie. All the stories except the title one, written specifically for the volume, can be found in various other Asimov collections.
Robot fetishism Robot fetishism (also ASFR or technosexuality) is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot.
Robot Fighting League The Robot Fighting League (RFL) organizes and promotes combat robot competitions and other robotic sports. The RFL was created in November 2002 out of an ongoing discussion among many of the combat robot competition organizers.
Robot Chicken Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created by Stoop!d Monkey and Sony Pictures Digital and produced by ShadowMachine Films, currently airing in America as a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim line-up, in Britain as part of the Bravo's Adult Swim line-up, and in Canada on Teletoon's Detour nightly adult programming.
Robot kinematics Robot kinematics is the study of the motion (kinematics) of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without considering the forces that cause this motion.
Robot locomotion Robot locomotion is the study of how to design robot appendages and control mechanisms to allow robots to move fluidly and efficiently. What might seem a simple matter like negotiating stairs in practice has proved terrifically difficult.
Robot Master In the Mega Man original series, a Robot Master (AKA "Super Robot") is a special kind of robot or android that possesses a very advanced level of artificial intelligence. There are roughly one hundred thirty six Robot Masters.
Robot Patent The Robot Patent was a labour rent abolished by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor who had carried out a register of all land with a division between peasant and noble holdings. Joseph II outlawed the buying of 'rustic' land by the nobility and at he same time giving the rusticalists security of tenure.
Robot Randy Robot Randy is the second episode in the second season of Courage the Cowardly Dog. It is about a robot from outer space who wants to carve wooden reindeer, but is forced to conquer a planet by his warlike race, so he goes to invade Earth.
Robot Romance Trilogy The Robot Romance Trilogy were three Super Robot anime series created and directed by Tadao Nagahama from late 1976 through early 1979. The series are notable for developing ideas from Raideen the Brave, helping the super robot genre evolve, from series meant mainly to sell toys, with little to no plot or character development from episode to episode, into series capable of telling dramatic stories of human conflict and compassion.
Robot Taekwon V Robot Taekwon V is a South Korean animated film directed by Kim Cheong-gi and produced by Yu Hyun-mok, the prominent director of such films as Obaltan (ě¤ë°śí„) (Aimless Bullet) (1960). Released on July 24 1976, it was Korea's first full-length animated science-fiction feature.
Robot Taekwon V and Golden Wing 123 Robot Taekwon V and Golden Wing 123 (로보트 íśę¶Śë¸Śěť´ě™€ 황ę¸ë‚ ę°ś 123) is an animated science-fiction film by director Kim Cheong-gi. It is a sequel to his popular Robot Taekwon V and Golden Wing films.
Robot Visions Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories.
Robot Wars Robot Wars is a competition involving remote controlled miniature vehicles built by mechanics, engineers and inventors, and equipped with weapons, to battle with one another in an arena, gladiator-style, until only the winner is left operational. The first Robot Wars competition was held in August, 1994 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California.
Robot-Assisted Heart Surgery Minimally invasive robot-assisted heart surgery (cardiac surgery) is a procedure that allows heart surgery to be performed through tiny incisions in the patient’s chest. Traditional “open” surgery requires that surgeons make incisions large enough to expose and provide access to the area that is being operated on.
Robotboy Robotboy is a French animated television series which was produced by Cartoon Network & French production company ALPHANIM with TV Channels France 3 and Cartoon Network as well as Luxanimation. It was created and designed by Jan Van Rijsselberge and was directed in Alphanim's studio in Paris by Charlie Bean, who worked on other Cartoon Network programs such as Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls.
Robotech Robotech is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island.
Robotech (novels) Robotech was adapted into novel form by "Jack McKinney", a pseudonym for the team of James Luceno and the late Brian Daley, a pair of writers who had been working with Macek since they had collaborated on the animated series Galaxy Rangers. Using fictitious epigraphs in the style of Dune, McKinney's novels fleshed out the chronology (including adapting the incomplete Sentinels source material) in greater detail.
Robotech 3000 Robotech 3000 was Harmony Gold's attempt to cash in on Y2K-themed entertainment right before the turn of the millennium. After the relative success of Voltron: The Third Dimension and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, a new Robotech sequel was proposed to jump on the 3D CG bandwagon with producer Jason Netter and writer Carl Macek at the helm.
Robotech art books Robotech art books are a series of publications comprised of the artwork, designs, and sometimes the production background of the Robotech television series and its spinoffs. Robotech Art 1 through Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels were published by Starblaze Graphics, an imprint of The Donning Company until it went out of business.
Robotech Collectible Card Game The Robotech Collectible Card Game (CCG) is a collectible card game produced by Hero Factory that is set against the science fiction backdrop of Robotech. Cards are based on characters and mecha from this popular anime.
Robotech music Robotech music consists of the musical scores written for the original 1985 Robotech television series and its various sequels and spinoffs, including Robotech video games. The most recognizable theme was composed by Ulpio Minucci and orchestrated by Arlon Ober.
Robotech Masters In the fictional Robotech universe, the Robotech Masters are a species of humanoids native to the moon Tirol. Their imperial machinations lead them to turn their cloned Zentraedi miners into a formidable military used to steal the Flower of Life from the Invid and conquer the Local Group of star systems.
Robotech Wars In the fictional world of Robotech, the Robotech Wars are a series of devastating wars through the first half of the 21st century. It begins in 2009 with the first battle between the SDF-1 and Zentraedi and continues in 2044 after the Invid retreat from Earth.
Robotech: Battlecry Robotech: Battlecry is a video game set in the Robotech universe, the first video game successfully released for the franchise. With a story focused on new characters created for the game and with guest appearances of main characters Rick Hunter, Roy Fokker, Lisa Hayes and the mention of Lynn Minmei, it somewhat follows the Robotech continuum.
Robotech: The Macross Saga Robotech: The Macross Saga is a side-scrolling shoot-em up for the Game Boy Advance handheld system, developed by Lucky Chicken Games and published by TDK Mediactive. This title was released during a renaissance of Robotech video games, where struggling projects were no longer cancelled and actually made it to market.
Robotech: The Movie Robotech: The Movie (also called Robotech: The Untold Story) was the first new Robotech adventure created by Harmony Gold USA after the 1985 premiere of the original television series. The 1986 theatrical film used footage from the Megazone 23 Part I OVA (original video animation, or made-for-video animated feature) spliced with The Southern Cross, and had only a tenuous link to the television series.
Robotfindskitten robotfindskitten is a "Zen simulation," originally written by Leonard Richardson for DOS. It is a free computer game with an ASCII interface in which the user (playing the eponymous robot and represented by a pound sign "#") must find kitten (represented by a random character) on a field of other random characters.
Robotic art Robotic art and installation unifies installation art and robotic sculpture where the works and installations are able to react to and change in some fashion through the use of computers, sensors, actuators and programming, which allows the installation and sculptures to evolve in relation to viewer interactions. In this kind of art and technology based work the viewer is transformed from a passive viewer to an active participant.
Robotic Lunar Observatory The Robotic Lunar Observatory, or ROLO, was an astronomical observatory funded by NASA, located at the USGS Flagstaff Field Center in Flagstaff, AZ, atop McMillan Mesa. It's purpose was to establish the Moon as a radiance calibration source for Earth-orbiting remote sensing spacecraft.
Robotic paradigms A robotic paradigm can be described by the relationship between the 3 primitives of robotics: Sense, Plan, and Act. It can also be described by the way sensory data is processed and distributed through the system.
Robotic surgery Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and unmanned surgery Major potential advantages of robotic surgery are precision and miniaturization.
Robotic telescope A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human. In astronomical disciplines, a telescope qualifies as robotic if it makes those observations without being operated by a human, even if a human has to initiate the observations at the beginning of the night, or end them in the morning.
Robotic unicycle The problem of creating a robotic unicycle, a self-powered unicycle that balances itself in three dimensions, is an interesting problem in robotics and control theory. Balancing such a vehicle is a similar control problem to balancing an inverted pendulum.
Robotic voice effects "Robot voices" became a recurring element in popular music during the late twentieth century, and several methods of producing variations on this effect have arisen. Though the vocoder is by far the best-known, the following other pieces of music technology are often confused with it:
Robotica (video game) Robotica (Robotica Cybernation Revolt in Europe) is a first-person shooter for Sega Saturn. It was the first of its genre to be released on the ill-fated Sega Saturn and was also released in the first generation of Saturn games.
Roboticist A roboticist conceptualizes, designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
Roboticization In several fictional universes, roboticization is a process used to transform living creatures into robots. Most often, this process is employed by villains, who use it to turn people or creatures into mindless slaves or soldiers.
Robotics Institute The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is considered to be one of the leading centers of robotics research in the world.
Robotix (animated series) Robotix is an animated series from 1986 based on a Milton Bradley/Hasbro toy property of the same name (a construction toy similar in spirit to Erector set and K'Nex, that includes motors, wheels and pincers). The show follows the conflict between the peaceful Protectons and the warmongering Terrakors on the alien world of Skalorr, and a group of humans who get caught in between.
Robotkid Robotkid is the alias of Josh Randall, an electronic dance musician, video artist and video game developer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along with "PK", he was part of the mid-1990s synthcore band Institute of Technology.
Robotman & Friends Robotman & Friends is a fully animated children's cartoon which was aired around 1984, and is a 3 episode special. These very cute, colourful, and entertaining episodes are about 3 user-friendly robots named Robotman, Stellar, and Oops who are from Robotland, who need love (specifically human love) to survive.
RobotML RobotML ("Robot Markup Language") is an experimental XML-based markup language that is used for communication between autonomous mobile robots and robot components. RobotML was developed at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, the first public release was announced for spring 2005.
Robotnik (1983-1990) Robotnik (The Worker) was the name of an underground newspaper (bibuła) published by Solidarity resistance movement in the People's Republic of Poland between the years 1983 and 1990. It was named after a pre-war publication of that name.
Robotron: 2084 Robotron: 2084 (often called simply Robotron) is an arcade game created in 1982 by the company Vid Kidz (Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar) for Williams Electronics. It was unique at the time in that the controls were two 8-way joysticks (one for running, one for shooting) rather than the more typical single joystick and fire button.
Robots (film) Robots is a computer-animated film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox (the same companies behind the film Ice Age), and was released theatrically (both in normal theaters and in IMAX theaters) on March 11, 2005. The DVD of Robots was released on September 27th, 2005.
Robots in Deus Ex The video game Deus Ex contains a wide variety of robotic units which can be extremely beneficial to the player, or a severe detriment, depending on the type and situation. Commonly robots are used strictly for security purposes, serving the role of "walking turrets".
Robots in Disguise Robots in Disguise is an electro punk band from London and Berlin. Dee Plume and Sue Denim are its only two members as of 2005, apart from a drummer named Ann Droid, and occasionally at gigs, a bassist (usually either Noel Fielding or Chris Corner).
RobotWar RobotWar was a programming game written by Silas Warner. This game, along with the companion program RobotWrite, was originally developed in the TUTOR programming language language on the PLATO system in the 1970's.
RoboWar RoboWar is an open source game in which you program robots to battle each other. The syntax of the language in which the robots are programmed is a relatively simple stack-based one, based largely on IF, THEN, and simply-defined variables.
Robozilla Robozilla, or Rob O'Zilla, is a web robot that checks through the links listed in the Open Directory Project to verify that they are working. If Robozilla finds any bad links it flags them and lets the editors fix the links.
Robson Arms Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV Television Network on August 7, 2005. Robson Arms is a coproduction between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.
Robson Bonnichsen Robson Bonnichsen 3 December 1940- 25 December 2004 was an anthropologist who undertook pioneering research in First American studies, popularized the field and founded the Center for the Study of the First Americans. Bonnichsen and his colleagues believed that humans colonized North America long before 11,000 years ago, when people of the Clovis culture left their signature artifacts in North America.
Robson da Silva Robson Caetano da Silva (born September 4, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) is the most successful Brazilian sprinter to date. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) and won the bronze medal over 200 m in Seoul 1988 as well as in 4x100 m relay in Atlanta 1996.
Robson flash memory Robson flash memory, also known as a Robson cache, is a technology the CPU producer Intel introduced on October 17, 2005 at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taiwan when it gave a demonstration using a laptop that booted up almost immediately.http://www.
Robson Lowe John Harry Robson Lowe (7 January, 1905 London – 19 August, 1997 Bournemouth), Robbie to his friends, was a professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer. He is regarded by philatelists as the father of postal history, having published many definitive works on the subject and having introduced the term in his first major book Handstruck Postage Stamps of the Empire 1680-1900 in 1948.
Robson Rotation Robson Rotation is the method of printing multiple ballots for single transferable vote elections, with each having the candidates listed in a different order. To achieve this, a number of designs of ballot paper are printed, and amounts of each design are randomly distributed.
Robson Street Robson Street is a major southeast-northwest thoroughfare in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its name honours John Robson, a major figure in British Columbia's entry into the Canadian Confederation, and Premier of the province from 1889 to 1892.
Robur Carolinum Robur Carolinum (Latin for Charles' oak) was a constellation created by the English astronomer Sir Edmund Halley in 1679. The name refers to the oak where Charles II was said to have hidden from the troops of Oliver Cromwell after the Battle of Worcester.
Robust cardinalfish The robust cardinalfish, Epigonus robustus, is a deepwater cardinalfish of the family Epigonidae, found circumglobally in southern temperate waters, at depths of between 500 and 3,000 m. Its length is up to 22 cm.
Robinson-Patman Act The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, ) is a United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination. It grew out of practices in which chain stores were allowed to purchase goods at lower prices than other retailers.
Robinson-Schensted algorithm In mathematics, the Robinson–Schensted algorithm is a combinatorial algorithm, first discovered by Robinson in 1938, which establishes a bijective correspondence between elements of the symmetric group S_n and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It can be viewed as a simple, constructive proof of the combinatorial identity:
Robinsonade Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned enough imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story".
Robinsons-May Robinsons-May was a chain of department stores operating in Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, previously with headquarters in North Hollywood, California. It was a division of Federated Department Stores, having been acquired with Federated's takeover of May Department Stores on August 30 2005.
Robinwood, Little Rock, Arkansas Robinwood is an exclusive residential section of northwest Little Rock, Arkansas, marked by several large, stately homes among a wooded area near the Arkansas River. Some of the homes of Robinwood can be seen along the riverside cliffs approaching the city via Interstate 430 from Maumelle.
Robiola Robiola is an Italian soft-ripened cheese of the Stracchino family, made with varying proportions of cow’s, goat’s milk and sheep’s milk. One theory is that the cheese gets its name from the town of Robbio in the province of Pavia; another that the name comes from the word rubeole (ruddy) because of the color of the seasoned rind.
Robion Kirby Robion Cromwell Kirby is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in low-dimensional topology. He coinvented the Kirby-Siebenmann invariant for classifying the PL-structures on a topological manifold, in which his famous torus trick is fundamental, and proved the fundamental result on the Kirby calculus, a method for describing 3-manifolds and smooth 4-manifolds by surgery on framed links.
Robitussin Robitussin is a brand of cold and cough medicines produced by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare. Robitussin products are available over the counter in many countries worldwide, including the United States and Thailand.
Roblin (electoral division) Roblin is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created by redistribution in 1914, eliminated by redistribution in 1979, and formally ceased to exist with the 1981 provincial election.
Roblin-Russell Roblin-Russell is a former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1979 (with considerable territory from the former riding of Roblin), and was abolished in 1999.
Robo Machines Robo Machines is a short-lived European transforming robot toy-line released by Bandai from late 1992 to 1993. It was meant as an attempt to revive the European Robo Machine toy-line that ran from 1982 to approximately 1988.
Robo-Hunter Robo-Hunter was a recurring strip in the British Comic 2000 AD, initially written by John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson. The series starred Sam Slade, a laconic, ageing, cigar-smoking bounty hunter of robots that have gone renegade.
Robo-Ky The are characters in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, making their first appearance in several editions of the second game, Guilty Gear X, as a secret mode for Ky, then later in the third game, Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival as a secret character, and then in Guilty Gear XX#Reload as a normal character, having undergone major changes. There are multiple Robo-Kys in the storyline, but they are all the same.
Robocon Robocon is an annual robot contest starting from 2002 organized by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), just for university, college and polytechnic students in the Asia-Pacific region addition to them students from Egypt. Under a common set of rules, participants will compete with their peers in other countries to create a robot using their creative and technological abilities in an open competition.
Robocopy Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy" as it calls itself, is a command-line file copying tool introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, but which beforehand has always been available with the Windows Resource Kit, free to licensed users of Windows. Robocopy is designed for reliable copy or mirroring of entire folders of any size ensuring all NTFS attributes and properties are copied (except security-related ones unless specifically requested), particularly over network connections that are subject to disruption or outages.
Robocrane The Robocrane® is a kind of manipulator resembling a Stewart platform but using an octahedral assembly of cables instead of struts. Like the Stewart platform, the Robocrane has six degrees of freedom (x, y, z, pitch, roll, & yaw).
RobocupJunior RoboCupJunior is an educational initiative, started in 1998, which organizes local, regional and international robotic event for primary and secondary school children and also kids who do not have the resources to get involved in the senior leagues. Its focus in the junior leagues is to educate kids.
RoboCop RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven. It spawned two sequels, several comic books, multiple video games, two animated series, dozens of action figures and two television series, all featuring a cyborg police officer.
RoboCop versus The Terminator (comic book) RoboCop versus The Terminator is a four-issue comic book crossover limited series written by Frank Miller that was published in 1992 by Dark Horse Comics. It was pencilled by Walt Simonson and inked by Steve Oliff, who also jointly illustrated the covers.
RoboCop: Alpha Commando RoboCop: Alpha Commando is an animated series based on the character of RoboCop, it was the second animated version of the character, following on from RoboCop: The Animated Series in the 1980s. The series premiered on September 7, 1998, and ran until February 3, 1999.
RoboCop: The Animated Series RoboCop: The Animated Series is an animated series produced in the 1980s by Marvel Animation, and is based on the character and events of the movie RoboCop. As of 2006, none of the show's 12 episodes have been released onto Region 1 DVD.
RoboCup RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot Soccer World Cup".
RoboDynamics RoboDynamics Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes commercial hardware and software components that enable robotic Telepresence. RoboDynamics is best known for world's first ever Robotic Personal Assistant MILO, an anthropomorphic robotic platform.
Roboform Roboform is a proprietary software password management program developed by Siber Systems. It is available for many web browsers, but mainly supports Internet Explorer (and other browsers based on it), Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape, as well as support for Palm and PocketPC.
RoboHelp RoboHelp is a Help authoring tool (HAT) created by the eHelp Corporation and now owned by Adobe Systems following the acquisition of Macromedia. The software is used by technical writers to create computer help files in various formats, including:
Robochrist Industries Robochrist Industries is a robotic performance art troupe most notably recognized for its performances in and around Los Angeles during the years 1997 - 2005. The performances feature large radio-controlled robots moving among and eventually destroying props and set-pieces intended to convey specific theatrical narratives.
Robopon 2 Robopon 2: Ring Version and Cross Version (similar to how Pokemon is broken up into Blue and Red) is a game designed by Atlus in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance. The Robopon series of video games appears to be loosely-based off of Nintendo's Pokémon series and is often considered to be a Pokémon clone.
Robopound Robopound, typically referred to colloquially as Robo, is a fast-paced team drinking game originally created in the 1970's at Princeton University where it still maintains enormous popularity. To a limited extent, robo is played at some other universities (including Stanford University), and is highly popular in Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School NJ.
Roboraptor Roboraptor is a robotic toy invented by Mark Tilden and distributed by Wow Wee Toys International. It is the successor to the Robosapien robot and uses motion technology based on realistic biomechanics that give it fluid and natural movements.
Roborovski hamster Roborovskis (Phodopus roborovski) are the smallest and fastest of all hamsters and are commonly kept as pets. Distinguishing characteristics of the Roborovskis are the white spots where their eyebrows would be, and the lack of a dorsal stripe commonly seen in dwarf hamsters.
Robosaurus Robosaurus is a transforming robotic dinosaur created by inventor Doug Malewicki in 1989 and is currently owned and operated by Monster Robots, Inc. Robosaurus is modeled after a Tyrannosaurus rex and has hydraulically activated arms, grasping claws, and jaws, as well as a flame thrower set up in the head to give the effect of breathing fire out of its nostrils.
Robostory Robostory is a French cartoon series that was created by Michel Pillyser and Bernard Kessler for the French production company Belokapi and first televised in 1985. It ran for 52 episodes that were each 13 minutes long.
RoboSapien RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with moves, and also can be controlled by an infrared remote control included with the toy, or by either a personal computer equipped with an infrared transmitter, and an infrared transmitter-equipped PDA.
Robot A robot is an electro-mechanical or bio-mechanical device or group of devices that can perform autonomous or preprogrammed tasks. A telerobot may act under the direct control of a human, such as the robotic arm on a space shuttle, or autonomously under the control of a programmed computer.
Robot (Doctor Who) Robot is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 28, 1974 to January 18, 1975. It opened Season 12 and was the first full serial to feature Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, as well as Ian Marter as new companion Harry Sullivan.
Robot combat Robot Combat is a hobby in which two or more radio-controlled machines use varied methods of destroying or disabling the other robot. The machines are referred to as robots, though some will argue that they are not 'robots' as they are not autonomous.
Robot Carnival Robot Carnival is an Japanese anime film released in 1987. It is very akin to Disney's Fantasia in feeling and setup, in that it is a collection of nine shorts by several different directors, put together, and containing only music (albeit a few exceptions).
Robot Commando Robot Commando (ISBN 0-14-032152-7) is a single player roleplaying gamebook written by Steve Jackson, illustrated by Gary Mayes and originally published in 1986. It forms part of Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 22 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the Wizard reissuing.
Robot dog Robot dog refers to a robot in the shape of a dog, or one which has other canine characteristics (such as a barking dog burglar alarm activated by disturbance of an infra-red beam). Such dogs have appeared often both in fiction, and in the form of toys.
Robot Dreams Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories, intended largely to show a series of Asimov robot-inspired drawings by Ralph McQuarrie. All the stories except the title one, written specifically for the volume, can be found in various other Asimov collections.
Robot fetishism Robot fetishism (also ASFR or technosexuality) is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot.
Robot Fighting League The Robot Fighting League (RFL) organizes and promotes combat robot competitions and other robotic sports. The RFL was created in November 2002 out of an ongoing discussion among many of the combat robot competition organizers.
Robot Chicken Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created by Stoop!d Monkey and Sony Pictures Digital and produced by ShadowMachine Films, currently airing in America as a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim line-up, in Britain as part of the Bravo's Adult Swim line-up, and in Canada on Teletoon's Detour nightly adult programming.
Robot kinematics Robot kinematics is the study of the motion (kinematics) of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without considering the forces that cause this motion.
Robot locomotion Robot locomotion is the study of how to design robot appendages and control mechanisms to allow robots to move fluidly and efficiently. What might seem a simple matter like negotiating stairs in practice has proved terrifically difficult.
Robot Master In the Mega Man original series, a Robot Master (AKA "Super Robot") is a special kind of robot or android that possesses a very advanced level of artificial intelligence. There are roughly one hundred thirty six Robot Masters.
Robot Patent The Robot Patent was a labour rent abolished by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor who had carried out a register of all land with a division between peasant and noble holdings. Joseph II outlawed the buying of 'rustic' land by the nobility and at he same time giving the rusticalists security of tenure.
Robot Randy Robot Randy is the second episode in the second season of Courage the Cowardly Dog. It is about a robot from outer space who wants to carve wooden reindeer, but is forced to conquer a planet by his warlike race, so he goes to invade Earth.
Robot Romance Trilogy The Robot Romance Trilogy were three Super Robot anime series created and directed by Tadao Nagahama from late 1976 through early 1979. The series are notable for developing ideas from Raideen the Brave, helping the super robot genre evolve, from series meant mainly to sell toys, with little to no plot or character development from episode to episode, into series capable of telling dramatic stories of human conflict and compassion.
Robot Taekwon V Robot Taekwon V is a South Korean animated film directed by Kim Cheong-gi and produced by Yu Hyun-mok, the prominent director of such films as Obaltan (ě¤ë°śí„) (Aimless Bullet) (1960). Released on July 24 1976, it was Korea's first full-length animated science-fiction feature.
Robot Taekwon V and Golden Wing 123 Robot Taekwon V and Golden Wing 123 (로보트 íśę¶Śë¸Śěť´ě™€ 황ę¸ë‚ ę°ś 123) is an animated science-fiction film by director Kim Cheong-gi. It is a sequel to his popular Robot Taekwon V and Golden Wing films.
Robot Visions Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories.
Robot Wars Robot Wars is a competition involving remote controlled miniature vehicles built by mechanics, engineers and inventors, and equipped with weapons, to battle with one another in an arena, gladiator-style, until only the winner is left operational. The first Robot Wars competition was held in August, 1994 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California.
Robot-Assisted Heart Surgery Minimally invasive robot-assisted heart surgery (cardiac surgery) is a procedure that allows heart surgery to be performed through tiny incisions in the patient’s chest. Traditional “open” surgery requires that surgeons make incisions large enough to expose and provide access to the area that is being operated on.
Robotboy Robotboy is a French animated television series which was produced by Cartoon Network & French production company ALPHANIM with TV Channels France 3 and Cartoon Network as well as Luxanimation. It was created and designed by Jan Van Rijsselberge and was directed in Alphanim's studio in Paris by Charlie Bean, who worked on other Cartoon Network programs such as Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls.
Robotech Robotech is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island.
Robotech (novels) Robotech was adapted into novel form by "Jack McKinney", a pseudonym for the team of James Luceno and the late Brian Daley, a pair of writers who had been working with Macek since they had collaborated on the animated series Galaxy Rangers. Using fictitious epigraphs in the style of Dune, McKinney's novels fleshed out the chronology (including adapting the incomplete Sentinels source material) in greater detail.
Robotech 3000 Robotech 3000 was Harmony Gold's attempt to cash in on Y2K-themed entertainment right before the turn of the millennium. After the relative success of Voltron: The Third Dimension and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, a new Robotech sequel was proposed to jump on the 3D CG bandwagon with producer Jason Netter and writer Carl Macek at the helm.
Robotech art books Robotech art books are a series of publications comprised of the artwork, designs, and sometimes the production background of the Robotech television series and its spinoffs. Robotech Art 1 through Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels were published by Starblaze Graphics, an imprint of The Donning Company until it went out of business.
Robotech Collectible Card Game The Robotech Collectible Card Game (CCG) is a collectible card game produced by Hero Factory that is set against the science fiction backdrop of Robotech. Cards are based on characters and mecha from this popular anime.
Robotech music Robotech music consists of the musical scores written for the original 1985 Robotech television series and its various sequels and spinoffs, including Robotech video games. The most recognizable theme was composed by Ulpio Minucci and orchestrated by Arlon Ober.
Robotech Masters In the fictional Robotech universe, the Robotech Masters are a species of humanoids native to the moon Tirol. Their imperial machinations lead them to turn their cloned Zentraedi miners into a formidable military used to steal the Flower of Life from the Invid and conquer the Local Group of star systems.
Robotech Wars In the fictional world of Robotech, the Robotech Wars are a series of devastating wars through the first half of the 21st century. It begins in 2009 with the first battle between the SDF-1 and Zentraedi and continues in 2044 after the Invid retreat from Earth.
Robotech: Battlecry Robotech: Battlecry is a video game set in the Robotech universe, the first video game successfully released for the franchise. With a story focused on new characters created for the game and with guest appearances of main characters Rick Hunter, Roy Fokker, Lisa Hayes and the mention of Lynn Minmei, it somewhat follows the Robotech continuum.
Robotech: The Macross Saga Robotech: The Macross Saga is a side-scrolling shoot-em up for the Game Boy Advance handheld system, developed by Lucky Chicken Games and published by TDK Mediactive. This title was released during a renaissance of Robotech video games, where struggling projects were no longer cancelled and actually made it to market.
Robotech: The Movie Robotech: The Movie (also called Robotech: The Untold Story) was the first new Robotech adventure created by Harmony Gold USA after the 1985 premiere of the original television series. The 1986 theatrical film used footage from the Megazone 23 Part I OVA (original video animation, or made-for-video animated feature) spliced with The Southern Cross, and had only a tenuous link to the television series.
Robotfindskitten robotfindskitten is a "Zen simulation," originally written by Leonard Richardson for DOS. It is a free computer game with an ASCII interface in which the user (playing the eponymous robot and represented by a pound sign "#") must find kitten (represented by a random character) on a field of other random characters.
Robotic art Robotic art and installation unifies installation art and robotic sculpture where the works and installations are able to react to and change in some fashion through the use of computers, sensors, actuators and programming, which allows the installation and sculptures to evolve in relation to viewer interactions. In this kind of art and technology based work the viewer is transformed from a passive viewer to an active participant.
Robotic Lunar Observatory The Robotic Lunar Observatory, or ROLO, was an astronomical observatory funded by NASA, located at the USGS Flagstaff Field Center in Flagstaff, AZ, atop McMillan Mesa. It's purpose was to establish the Moon as a radiance calibration source for Earth-orbiting remote sensing spacecraft.
Robotic paradigms A robotic paradigm can be described by the relationship between the 3 primitives of robotics: Sense, Plan, and Act. It can also be described by the way sensory data is processed and distributed through the system.
Robotic surgery Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and unmanned surgery Major potential advantages of robotic surgery are precision and miniaturization.
Robotic telescope A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human. In astronomical disciplines, a telescope qualifies as robotic if it makes those observations without being operated by a human, even if a human has to initiate the observations at the beginning of the night, or end them in the morning.
Robotic unicycle The problem of creating a robotic unicycle, a self-powered unicycle that balances itself in three dimensions, is an interesting problem in robotics and control theory. Balancing such a vehicle is a similar control problem to balancing an inverted pendulum.
Robotic voice effects "Robot voices" became a recurring element in popular music during the late twentieth century, and several methods of producing variations on this effect have arisen. Though the vocoder is by far the best-known, the following other pieces of music technology are often confused with it:
Robotica (video game) Robotica (Robotica Cybernation Revolt in Europe) is a first-person shooter for Sega Saturn. It was the first of its genre to be released on the ill-fated Sega Saturn and was also released in the first generation of Saturn games.
Roboticist A roboticist conceptualizes, designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
Roboticization In several fictional universes, roboticization is a process used to transform living creatures into robots. Most often, this process is employed by villains, who use it to turn people or creatures into mindless slaves or soldiers.
Robotics Institute The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is considered to be one of the leading centers of robotics research in the world.
Robotix (animated series) Robotix is an animated series from 1986 based on a Milton Bradley/Hasbro toy property of the same name (a construction toy similar in spirit to Erector set and K'Nex, that includes motors, wheels and pincers). The show follows the conflict between the peaceful Protectons and the warmongering Terrakors on the alien world of Skalorr, and a group of humans who get caught in between.
Robotkid Robotkid is the alias of Josh Randall, an electronic dance musician, video artist and video game developer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along with "PK", he was part of the mid-1990s synthcore band Institute of Technology.
Robotman & Friends Robotman & Friends is a fully animated children's cartoon which was aired around 1984, and is a 3 episode special. These very cute, colourful, and entertaining episodes are about 3 user-friendly robots named Robotman, Stellar, and Oops who are from Robotland, who need love (specifically human love) to survive.
RobotML RobotML ("Robot Markup Language") is an experimental XML-based markup language that is used for communication between autonomous mobile robots and robot components. RobotML was developed at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, the first public release was announced for spring 2005.
Robotnik (1983-1990) Robotnik (The Worker) was the name of an underground newspaper (bibuła) published by Solidarity resistance movement in the People's Republic of Poland between the years 1983 and 1990. It was named after a pre-war publication of that name.
Robotron: 2084 Robotron: 2084 (often called simply Robotron) is an arcade game created in 1982 by the company Vid Kidz (Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar) for Williams Electronics. It was unique at the time in that the controls were two 8-way joysticks (one for running, one for shooting) rather than the more typical single joystick and fire button.
Robots (film) Robots is a computer-animated film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox (the same companies behind the film Ice Age), and was released theatrically (both in normal theaters and in IMAX theaters) on March 11, 2005. The DVD of Robots was released on September 27th, 2005.
Robots in Deus Ex The video game Deus Ex contains a wide variety of robotic units which can be extremely beneficial to the player, or a severe detriment, depending on the type and situation. Commonly robots are used strictly for security purposes, serving the role of "walking turrets".
Robots in Disguise Robots in Disguise is an electro punk band from London and Berlin. Dee Plume and Sue Denim are its only two members as of 2005, apart from a drummer named Ann Droid, and occasionally at gigs, a bassist (usually either Noel Fielding or Chris Corner).
RobotWar RobotWar was a programming game written by Silas Warner. This game, along with the companion program RobotWrite, was originally developed in the TUTOR programming language language on the PLATO system in the 1970's.
RoboWar RoboWar is an open source game in which you program robots to battle each other. The syntax of the language in which the robots are programmed is a relatively simple stack-based one, based largely on IF, THEN, and simply-defined variables.
Robozilla Robozilla, or Rob O'Zilla, is a web robot that checks through the links listed in the Open Directory Project to verify that they are working. If Robozilla finds any bad links it flags them and lets the editors fix the links.
Robson Arms Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV Television Network on August 7, 2005. Robson Arms is a coproduction between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.
Robson Bonnichsen Robson Bonnichsen 3 December 1940- 25 December 2004 was an anthropologist who undertook pioneering research in First American studies, popularized the field and founded the Center for the Study of the First Americans. Bonnichsen and his colleagues believed that humans colonized North America long before 11,000 years ago, when people of the Clovis culture left their signature artifacts in North America.
Robson da Silva Robson Caetano da Silva (born September 4, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) is the most successful Brazilian sprinter to date. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) and won the bronze medal over 200 m in Seoul 1988 as well as in 4x100 m relay in Atlanta 1996.
Robson flash memory Robson flash memory, also known as a Robson cache, is a technology the CPU producer Intel introduced on October 17, 2005 at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taiwan when it gave a demonstration using a laptop that booted up almost immediately.http://www.
Robson Lowe John Harry Robson Lowe (7 January, 1905 London – 19 August, 1997 Bournemouth), Robbie to his friends, was a professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer. He is regarded by philatelists as the father of postal history, having published many definitive works on the subject and having introduced the term in his first major book Handstruck Postage Stamps of the Empire 1680-1900 in 1948.
Robson Rotation Robson Rotation is the method of printing multiple ballots for single transferable vote elections, with each having the candidates listed in a different order. To achieve this, a number of designs of ballot paper are printed, and amounts of each design are randomly distributed.
Robson Street Robson Street is a major southeast-northwest thoroughfare in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its name honours John Robson, a major figure in British Columbia's entry into the Canadian Confederation, and Premier of the province from 1889 to 1892.
Robur Carolinum Robur Carolinum (Latin for Charles' oak) was a constellation created by the English astronomer Sir Edmund Halley in 1679. The name refers to the oak where Charles II was said to have hidden from the troops of Oliver Cromwell after the Battle of Worcester.
Robust cardinalfish The robust cardinalfish, Epigonus robustus, is a deepwater cardinalfish of the family Epigonidae, found circumglobally in southern temperate waters, at depths of between 500 and 3,000 m. Its length is up to 22 cm.
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