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robot
robot or automaton mechanical device designed to perform the work generally done by a human being. The Czech dramatist Karel Čapek popularized the expression [Czech,=compulsory labor] in his play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), produced in Prague in 1921. Modern robotics has produced innumerable devices that replace human personnel, and the term robot is used to designate much of this machinery. It is used frequently in fiction, referring to a self-controlling machine shaped like a human being. While the concept has been the subject of stories since the golem of medieval times, it reached its greatest exposure in popular culture with the work of Isaac Asimov in the 1950s and the motion picture robots Robby in Forbidden Planet (1956) and C-3PO in Star Wars (1977).

See G. Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life (2002).

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Any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not look much like a human being or function in a humanlike manner. The term comes from the play R.U.R. by Karel Chacekapek (1920). Major developments in microelectronics and computer technology since the 1960s have led to significant advances in robotics. Advanced, high-performance robots are used today in automobile manufacturing and aircraft assembly, and electronics firms use robotic devices together with other computerized instruments to sort or test finished products.

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ROBOTICS AUTOMATION & ASSEMBLY: Safeguarding industrial robots.
Mar 26, 2008; Robot suppliers emphasise the ease of use of modern programming, teaching and simulation tools. But machine builders and system...
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Robot manufacturer puts safety before sales. (Wittman emphasizes safety first in robotics products)(Automation)
Nov 01, 1991; AUSTRIAN robot maker Wittmann has taken a tough line on robot safety, with an uncompromising 'no safety, no robot' policy. Unless...
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Robots laugh, solve puzzles and get dental treatment at Japanese exhibit
Nov 28, 2007; A robot math whiz breezes through a Rubik's Cube, using metal hands to twist and turn the colorful toy. A panda robot uses...
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Robot begets robot at automation show.(news & analysis)
Nov 01, 2005; I, robot. You, robot. FANUC Robotics America Inc. demonstrated intelligent shaft insertion and gear assembly/disassembly of robot...
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