Predictions of many robots in industry have yet come true. For ten years or more, manufacturers of big robots have explained how their machines can make industry more competitive and productive. The maker for ______ robots is oversupplied now, and the driving force of the robotics revolution is ____ to be with maker of machines that handle a few kilos at most.
“ Heavy-robot manufacturers are in some difficulty ______ finding customers. They are offering big ______ just to get in the door. There has been a ______ growth everywhere in the numbers of robots, so we admit we are either deceiving ______or that the market is slowly growing,” said John Reekie, chairman of Colen Robotics. “The following things must happen _____ the robotics revolution to occur. We must achieve widespread robot literacy. ______ there has been a computer _____program, there must be a robot literacy program. _____, some kind of artificial intelligence needs to be ______.
Colen makes educational robots and machine tools. It is small _____ with companies like ASEA or Fujitsu Fanuc. But Colen with others in departments in universities such as Sirrey, Manchester, and Durham possesses an advantage _____ the giants. The big companies sell very expensive _____to nosiness with expert knowledge of automation. The _____companies make robots for teaching people, and now they have realized that there is a need for small, _____robots that they can meet.
The little companies either bring their educational machines ______ an industrial standard or design from the start. One technique that they all adopt is to choose _____ components when possible. The major cost making ______their models is the electronics, which will fall in price. There is _____scope for reductions in mechanical costs. The use of standard parts, which are easily placed, should give these robots a mechanical life of something in the order of five years.
A. small      B. educational  C. big      D. business
A. claimed      B. called          C. thought     D. told
A. to          B. with          C. over      D. in
A. money   B. discounts      C. prices    D. costs
A. exciting       B. encouraging   C. satisfying   D. disappointing
A. ourselves      B. customers   C. companies  D. us
A. to      B. for         C. in      D. with
A. As if     B. Even though    C. Just as   D. Although
A. custom    B. literacy      C. poem      D. tradition
A. However     B. Finally      C. Whereas  D. Because
A. capable  B. possible       C. probable    D. available
A. compared    B. comparing    C. contrasted  D. contrasting
A. than      B. above         C. over     D. from
A. tools      B. robots         C. machines    D. electronics
A. other   B. big          C. little     D. robot
A. expensive  B. artificial     C. educational D. low-cost
A. up-to   B. on         C. in    D. about
A. mechanical  B. standard     C. cheap     D. small
A. much   B. many        C. both    D. some
A. more   B. less           C. no      D. least