In the area of robotics, computers are now widely used in assembly plants, but they are capable only of very limited tasks. Robots have great difficulty identifying objects based on appearance or feel, and they still move and handle objects clumsily.
The geology of the Rocky Mountains is that of a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins.
Rocky Mountains. 1  The Rocky Mountains represent the subduction and collision of an old oceanic plate with the west coast of North America. 2  The growth of the Rocky Mountains (also known as Laramide orogeny) has been one of the most perplexing of geologic puzzles. Normally, mountain building is focused 200-400 miles inland from a subduction zone boundary.