Alien (film) caused an usher to faint. In the following scene, Ash's head is placed on a table and re-activated; for portions of this scene, an animatronic head was made using a face cast of the actor, Ian Holm. However, the latex of the head shrank while curing and the result was not entirely convincing. For the bulk of the scene, Holm knelt under the table with his head coming up through a hole. Milk, caviar, pasta, fiber optics, and glass marbles were combined to form the android's innards. Giger made several conceptual paintings of the adult Alien before settling on the
Flakey the robot Flakey the robot Flakey the robot was a research robot created at SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center and was the successor to Shakey the robot. Most of Flakey's routines were written in Lisp, with some lower-level code written in C. The code maintains a "Local Perceptual Space" that is updated by the sensors and acted on by planning algorithms. It was about 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, and included 12 sonar sensors, optical wheel encoders, a video camera, and a depth-finding laser. Flakey was used to demonstrate fuzzy logic and goal-oriented behavior - it would take what it