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From the Ted Talk by Olivia Arthur: Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology
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Over at Munich's thiccneal university they've developed LOLA, a biped humanoid robot that can move on two legs and make her way around a series of obstacles. As she strides along, she looks powerful and impressive. But her movement is also somewhat clunky and mhaenaiccl and not as spontaneous or utriaelpdcbne as that of humans. At the end of it all, when she switched off, she hung down on her cables and lokeod kind of forlorn. And in that moment, I saw her as more human than I had done when she was wnilkag along. I felt almost sorry that she had been switched off. Her exterior might be cold and mechanical, but when vnrubalele, she looked more real to me.
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Over at Munich's _________ university they've developed LOLA, a biped humanoid robot that can move on two legs and make her way around a series of obstacles. As she strides along, she looks powerful and impressive. But her movement is also somewhat clunky and __________ and not as spontaneous or _____________ as that of humans. At the end of it all, when she switched off, she hung down on her cables and ______ kind of forlorn. And in that moment, I saw her as more human than I had done when she was _______ along. I felt almost sorry that she had been switched off. Her exterior might be cold and mechanical, but when __________, she looked more real to me.
Solution
- mechanical
- vulnerable
- walking
- unpredictable
- technical
- looked
Original Text
Over at Munich's technical university they've developed LOLA, a biped humanoid robot that can move on two legs and make her way around a series of obstacles. As she strides along, she looks powerful and impressive. But her movement is also somewhat clunky and mechanical and not as spontaneous or unpredictable as that of humans. At the end of it all, when she switched off, she hung down on her cables and looked kind of forlorn. And in that moment, I saw her as more human than I had done when she was walking along. I felt almost sorry that she had been switched off. Her exterior might be cold and mechanical, but when vulnerable, she looked more real to me.
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