2013-2014高中英语 unit 2 Robots section ⅰ warming up reading课件 新人教版选修7.pptVIP

* Unit 2 Robots Section Ⅰ Warming Up Reading LONDON (Reuters)—Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves. Each robot consists of several 10cm (4 inch) cubes which have identical (同一的) machinery, electromagnets (电磁体) to attach and detach ( 分 开 ) to each other and a computer program for replication.The robots can bend and pick up and stack ( 堆放 ) the cubes. “Although the machines we have created are still simple compared with biological