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1.sensation 轰动
News of his arrest caused a sensation.
他被捕的消息引起了轰动。
2.emergence 出现
Language emerges and develops with the emergence and development of society.
语言是随着社会的产生而产生，随着社会的发展而发展的。
n. 出现，浮现，露出
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- If robots are to go where people go, they need to be able to move in the way that people move.
- 如果机器人要去人类去到的地方，它们需要能够像人类一样移动。
- Wheels are useless for navigating much of the world—just ask anyone who uses a wheelchair,
- 轮子在世界上大部分地方都是无用的——问问使用轮椅的人就知道，
- says Aaron Ames, a robotics expert at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
- 加州理工学院（Caltech）的机器人专家Aaron Ames说到。
- "We can make robots walk really well now," he says. Such robots can, though, look a little odd.
- “我们现在可以让机器人很好地行走，”他说。不过，这样的机器人看起来可能有些怪异。
- When a torso with two legs attached strolls out of Dr Ames's laboratory it causes a bit of a sensation on Caltech's campus.
- 当配有两条腿的躯干从Ames博士的实验室溜出来的时候，它在Caltech校园中引起了小小的轰动。
- But this is something people are going to have to get used to, because many more are coming.
- 但人们将需要习惯，因为会有越来越多这样的机器人问世。
- Problems remain, and improvements are needed.
- 问题仍然存在，并且需要改进。
- "But once we get there, we are going to have millions of walking robots in human environments,"
- “但一旦我们成功，我们的人类环境中将拥有数百万个行走的机器人，”
- says Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of Agility Robotics, a firm based in Albany, Oregon.
- Agility Robotics公司（该公司位于俄勒冈州奥尔巴尼）的联合创始人表示。
- It has just launched Digit, a bipedal, two-armed robot which has the look of an ostrich about it.
- 该公司刚刚推出一款双腿双臂机器人Digit，外形酷似鸵鸟。
- At present, Digit costs $250,000. But it is early days.
- 目前，Digit造价25万美元。但还在初期阶段。
- As more walking robots are put to work their development will accelerate and their production volumes increase,
- 随着越来越多的行走机器人被投入使用，它们的开发将加速，它们的产量将增加，
- bringing the cost of a machine like Digit down to the tens of thousands of dollars.
- 因此像Digit这类机器的造价将降至数万美元。
- This process is similar to the emergence of flying drones.
- 这个过程类似于无人机的出现。
- They once cost millions, and had limited uses, until researchers worked out how to make small aircraft hover using multiple co-ordinated rotors.
- 曾经它们的成本为是百万，且使用有限，直到研究人员研究出了如何使用多协调转子使小型飞机悬停。
- These devices could fly easily and autonomously. Prices fell to $500 or less,
- 这些装置可以轻松自主地飞行。价格降至五百美元以下，
- and multi-rotor drones are now employed for all manner of jobs, from cinematography to aerial surveying to delivering packages.
- 并且多转子无人机现在被应用于各种工作，如电影摄影、航空测量以及运输包裹。
- Some in the field of robotics think walking robots have started down a similar path.
- 机器人学领域的一些人认为，行走机器人已经走上了类似的道路。
- What changed? "We now understand the mathematics of locomotion to a much greater degree," explains Dr Ames.
- 什么改变了？“我们现在对移动的数学原理有了更深入了解，”Ames博士解释道。
- Old-school walking robots, such as Asimo, a famously cheesy android unveiled in 2000 by Honda, a Japanese carmaker, have stilted gaits.
- 老式的行走机器人，如2000年由日本汽车制造商本田公司发布的以廉价著称的机器人Asimo，步态呆板。
- They shuffle along, placing one foot forward, checking their balance, moving the other foot, rechecking their balance, and so on.
- 它们步履蹒跚，每走一步都要检查平衡。
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