The trial of the machinery was successful.

试验成功了。

" We are just in a situation where there are no good theories explaining what consciousness actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there."

“我们现在是既不知道意识是什么也不知道怎么让有那玩意。”

The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would also be programmed to behave in an agreeable manner.

理想的伴侣将不仅看起来、摸起来和听起来友善，还会编程使其拥有一种令人愉快的行为方式。

There could newsbots, and there could be spam bots.

“可能是新闻人，也可能是垃圾件人。”

Please put a coin in the slot of this machine.

请把硬币放进这台的一投币口.

They're just robots, Morty! It's okay to shoot them! They're robots!

他们是人Morty 随便打 他们是人！

We may ask a store employee to " ring up" our purchase, that is, enter the prices on a machine.

我们可能会让商店员工" ring up" （在收款上结算）我们的购买的商品，即在上输入价格。

He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.

他仿佛只是一人，言行举动全由游苔莎反复无常的意志来驱动。

They truly think of their lives as one cog in a machine.

他们真的认为他们的生活就像一台中的一齿轮一样。

Such homuncular functionalism (as the approach is known in AI circles) replaces the infinite regress with a finite one that terminates at tasks so dull and simple that they can be done by machines.

这样，这种侏儒技能主义（在人工智能领域）就用有限回归代替了原来的无限回归，而这种有限回归能够在任务变得非常单调又非常简单以至于只需就可以完成的时候自动停止。

Professor Bot is on vacation this week.

人博士本周去度假了。

Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?

中产阶级所面临的一令人恼火的挑战是，当人来抢他们的工作时，会引起什么后果？而在下届总统竞选中，可能根本不会提及这挑战。

The foundation has already put up prizes in areas as diverse as cleaning up oil spills and landing a robot on the moon.

该基金会已在许多领域中设立了奖项，这些领域五花八门，如清除石油泄漏和让人登陆月球。

It is much easier and cheaper to build a robot like Jibo, which uses simple movements and has the ability to interact with people through sound, pictures and touch.

制作Jibo这样的人变得更简单和便宜，Jibo使用简单的动作，能用声音、图片和触摸与人进行交流。

Inside the machine is an intricate arrangement of wires.

里面是错综复杂地连接在一起的电线。

Be careful if you use mirroring; you don't want to sound like a robot!

使用镜像法时要小心了；你不想听上去像人吧！

Well, they’ve been making a low continuous sound for a day or two. But they finally went dead at 2: 30 this afternoon.

那些人连续一两天发出声音。但是它们今天下午2: 30才不动了。

It's made in huge machines which tear and shred the edges to get it to clump and drift like real snow because if you cut it it just acts like confetti.

大型把纸张裁成碎片并去掉尖角，这样子纸屑凝结成块，飘洒起来就像真的雪，因为纸屑裁剪成了彩色纸屑的形状。

If you or someone you know has struggled to assemble furniture, this could be a welcome sight -- at least you bought a solid pine step-on chair from IKEA. That's what researchers in Singapore thought this robot to build.

如果你或你认识的人曾费力地组装过家具，这可能会是一受欢迎的消息——你在宜家买了一把结实的松木椅子。这就是新加坡的研究人员认为这人要建造的。

I always wanted to work for a small company because I don't want to become a tiny cog in a huge machine.

我一直希望小公司工作，因为我不想成为一台大型中的一极小的齿轮。