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Positronic is a manufacturing company based in Springfield, Missouri. The company manufactures and supplies electronic connectors that are utilized in a variety of industries worldwide including military , aerospace , telecommunications , medical , industrial and test equipment among others.
By October 1966, he had founded Positronic Industries in Springfield, Missouri and initially, the company manufactured electronic components and connectors for the aerospace industry. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Eight years later, Positronic moved to Rogersville, Missouri , and in the following years, it progressed and managed three expansions.
Blaine the Train (and the Pain) is a robot that has a brain designed from "positronic computers", as do the rest of the robots left over from the lost "old people". The Tick-Tock man interrogates Jake about his knowledge of Positronic Computers, which are stacked by the hundreds, unresponsive, below them.
The Positronic Man is a 1992 novel by American writers Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man".. It is about a robot that begins to display characteristics, such as creativity, traditionally the province of humans; the robot is ultimately declared an official human being.
A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It functions as a central processing unit (CPU) for robots , and, in some unspecified way, provides them with a form of consciousness recognizable to humans .
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American science fiction comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz (in a dual role), Wendy Crewson and Oliver Platt.Based on the 1992 novel The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (which is based on Asimov's original 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man"), the plot explores issues of humanity, slavery, prejudice, maturity ...
Anderson did not coin the term positron, but allowed it at the suggestion of the Physical Review journal editor to whom he submitted his discovery paper in late 1932. The positron was the first evidence of antimatter and was discovered when Anderson allowed cosmic rays to pass through a cloud chamber and a lead plate.
Springfield is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. [4] The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 census. [5] It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 487,061 in 2022 [6] and includes the counties of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, and Webster, [7] The city sits on the ...