Sensors detected obstacles ahead.

Meaning: The robot's special tools noticed things in its path.

Choice of Words: The word sensors refers to devices that detect and respond to physical stimuli, while detected describes the process of discovering or noticing something. Obstacles are things that block or hinder movement, and ahead means in front of the robot.

Alternative Expressions

There are things in the way ahead.

Meaning: This means that there is something in the way that is stopping you from moving forward. It's like saying, There is something in front of us that we can't go past.

Choice of Words: There is a place or location. Are is a verb that means to exist or to be in a certain place. Things are objects or items. In the way means blocking the path or making it difficult to move. Ahead means in front of or in the direction you are moving. When you put them together, "There are things in the way ahead" means that there are objects or items blocking the path in front.

We can't go forward because there are things blocking the way.

Meaning: This means that there is something in the way that is stopping you from moving forward. It's like saying, There is something in front of us that we can't go past.

Choice of Words: We is a pronoun that refers to the speaker and any other people they are with. Can't is a contraction of the words "cannot" which means to be unable to do something. Go is a verb that means to move or travel somewhere. Forward means in the direction you are facing or moving. Because is a conjunction that connects two clauses and explains the reason for something. There are is a verb that means to exist or to be in a certain place. Things are objects or items. Blocking means to prevent something from moving or passing through. The way is a path or route. When you put them together, "We can't go forward because there are things blocking the way" means that we are unable to move forward because there are objects or items in the path that are preventing us from passing through.

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