Practiced Robot
Year and a half ago Eastern Air Transport equipped one of its passenger planes with the Sperry "robot" pilot, a gyroscopic device which automatically keeps a plane on a set course (TIME. Oct. 19, 1931). In principle it was a success. But just as a human novice may fly a plane safely but clumsily, the robot pilot was awkward. Its worst fault was the same as the common fault of the human: slamming the controls this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot...
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