1.   Possible applications are continuous speech recognition and commands to robot arms.

2.   This, in fact, is what engineers do when they devise electronic control circuits to guide spaceships or steer robot arms.

3.   Twist some dials, and the machine trembles, two robot arms pick up soldering irons and hunch down on him.

4.   Users need to know what peripherals are needed such as printers or robot arms or whether a joystick is needed.

5.   As the shuttle closed in on the telescope, the astronauts tested the robot arm, spacesuits and the tools they would need for the job.

6.   Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery sailed through make-up tests with an experimental Japanese-built robot arm Friday and completed observations of the dimming comet Hale-Bopp.

7.   A robot arm emerges out of the ground, finds the cap of the fuel tank and removes it.

8.   According to Marcotte, the robot arm under went hundreds of hours of ground testing before its launch.

9.   Compounding the problem, the astronaut tried to regrab the satellite without first reopening the grapple hooks on the robot arm.

10.   Communications difficulties thwarted efforts Wednesday to complete remote tests of an experimental, Japanese-built robot arm aboard the space shuttle Discovery.