Interesting facts about robots

  • A robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming.
  • The term robot comes from the Czech word 'robota' which means 'forced work or labor'.
  • The word robotics, used to describe this field of study, was coined by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
  • Most robots today are used to do repetitive actions or jobs considered too dangerous for humans.
  • Currently, robots are unable to think or make decisions.
  • Archytas of Tarentum, built a mechanical bird driven by a jet of steam or compressed air—arguably history’s first robot—in the fifth century B.C.
  • Robotics expert Henrik Christensen predicts humans will be having sex with robots within four years.
  • Animatronics is a method of animating models by using specially developed robotic techniques.
  • Robots cannot feel emotions. However, they can be built to have senses.
  • Isaac Asimov and John W. Campbell created the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.


QUOTES ABOUT ROBOTS

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them. DONALD NORMAN

We are survival machines -- robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. RICHARD DAWKINS

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. CLAUDE SHANNON

Man is a robot with defects. EMILE CIORAN

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people. KEVIN J. ANDERSON

You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot. HOMER SIMPSON

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals. FERNANDO FLORES

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ERICH FROMM
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