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Robots
1 The most sophisticated （先进的）Japanese robots, which have vision systems and work at very high speeds, are still based on .American designs. Studies of robots, particularly computer control software, are considered to be generally less advanced in Japan than in America or Europe.
2 Atthough industrial robots were originally developed as devices for simply handling objects, tooay their commonest uses are for more skilled work like welding （焊接）, spray-painting and assembling components.
3 In Britain, robot sales appropriately peaked in 1984, but have been declining ever since. This is partly because British wage rates are too low to make robots financially. attractive and partly Decause engineers now have more experience with robots and are more aware of the difficulties of introducing them effectively.
4 It has been calculated that a robot uses on average about 100 times more energy than a human to do an ecuivalent job.
5 'It is estimated that 20% of all comic book heroes in Japan are robots. This is an enormous numbe because comics are so popular that they make up a third of all material published in Japan.
6 The reliability of robots is measured in their M.T.B．F． or mean time between failures,This has risern from about 250 hours in the mid,1970s to about 10,000 hours today（equivalent to working 18 hours a day for two years）. One way robot manufacturers have,increased reliability is to test every single component they buy, instead of the normal procedure of just testing a small sample.
7 The biggest single benefit of introducing robots claimed by Japanese companies is that they increase quality control once Programmed, the robots can work more accurately and; consistently than humans, who can get tired and bored.
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A Pay Rise or Not?
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His secretary, told him that George Strong wanted to see him as soon as possible.Manley sighed again. He could guess what it was about. George Strong was a very young engineer. The company had no future unless it could attract and keep men like him. Manley rubbed his forehead （前额）; his problems seemed endless.
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Even Intelligent People Can Fail
1．The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modem World is how often they failed. Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the Web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cellphone （手机）. The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze （错综复杂） of wrong turns.
2．We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison's success in heating a thin line to white-hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight （点亮着的）in an airless space for 45 hours. Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of'the six power plants in his design worked when he tumed it on, on September 4, 1882.
3．'Many of life's failures,' the supreme innovator said, 'are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.' Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light, but in only two cases did his experiments work.
4．No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of the camera maker Olympus America Inc, attributes some of the company's successes in technology to understanding failure. His popular phrase is: 'You only fail when you quit.'
5．Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence. That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep up what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the US$1.50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car.
6．Failure is harder to bear in today's open, accelerated world. Hardly any innovation works the first time. But an impatient society and the media want instant success. When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time, a critic said nastily that the only difference between Geffen Records （Geffen's company） and the Titanic （the ship that went down） was that the Titanic had better music. Actually, it wasn't. After four years of losses, Geffen had so many hits （成功的作品） he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all to himself.
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