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Robots, Robotic Topics, and Robot References
A variety of miscellaneous and scientific robotic terms and applications.
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Robots: As Human Partners, Part 1
Robots, helping to save military lives.
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Robots: As Human Partners, Part 2
Robots, as house cleaners.
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Robots: Humanoids
Robots, closer to being like humans.
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Robots: Industrial Applications
Robots, as industrial workers.
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Robots: With Feelings?
Robots, with touches of feeling.
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(a Czech word, robota meaning "serf" or "slave" or "forced work" which is now applied to any manufactured device that is capable of doing work ordinarily done by human beings)
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A programmable machine that is in use for industrial applications which has the freedom of movement similar to that of a human's waist, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers.
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Robot Origins and Characteristics of Robots
Originally from a Czech word robota, "force work", we now have robots and robotics, words which take us to manufactured devices that are capable of doing work ordinarily done by human beings.
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Robots and Robotics: Index of Units
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1. Any mechanical device that can be programmed to perform a number of tasks involving manipulation and movement under automatic control: Because of its use in science fiction, the term robot suggests a machine which has a human-like appearance or that operates with human-like capacities.
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There is no consensus regarding which machines qualify as robots; however, there is general agreement among certain people that robots tend to do some or all of the following: move around, operate a mechanical limb, sense and manipulate their environment, and exhibit intelligent behavior; especially, behavior which imitates humans or other animals.
In reality, modern industrial robots have very little physical or no resemblance to humans. It depends on which robot a person is referring to.
2. Etymology: from Czech robota, "work, forced labor, drudgery."Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
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