在我工作的西点军校历史系的走廊里,学员们实验着各种新型机器人。这类新的精巧装置偶有一台会爬到我门前,掉个头然后爬向另一边。你见过它们,它们跟出演电影《拆弹部队》的是同一种机器人,就是士兵们派去拆除简易爆炸装置的那种能够伸出机器臂的爬行装置。如你所想,在西点,它们的走廊之旅非常有趣,但这个 In the corridor of the History Department of West Point at which I work, students experimented with a variety of new robots. Occasionally one of these new compact devices climbs to my door, loses its head and then climbs to the other side. You’ve seen them, and they are the same type of robot as the movie “Bomb Destroyers,” a sort of crawler that the soldiers sent to dismantle improvised explosive devices that can extend their arms. As you can imagine, at West Point their tour of the corridor is very interesting, but this one