iRobot:Robotics Magazine for Android

11 things about iRobot:Robotics Magazine

1. Payment will charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased.

2. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.

3. You may turn off the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period.

4. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product.

5. They’re painting cars at Ford plants, assembling Milano cookies for Pepperidge Farms, walking into live volcanoes, driving trains in Paris, and defusing bombs in Northern Ireland.

6. The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period.

7. As they grow tougher, nimbler, and smarter, today’s robots are doing more and more things we can’t –or don’t want to–do.

8. But real robots wouldn’t become possible until the 1950’s and 60’s, with the invention of transistors and integrated circuits.

9. Existing users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account.

10. Robots have been with us for less than 50 years, but the idea of inanimate creations to do our bidding is much, much older.

11. The ancient Greek poet Homer described maidens of gold, metallic helpers for the Hephaistos, the Greek god of the forge.