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  • Robotics,
  • Robotics

Robot

A robot is a machine for carrying out certain tasks autonomously. Industrial robots work on assembly lines. A robot can be mobile and use various means of locomotion. It can be anthropoid, imitating the human form.

Origin of the word robot

The word comes from a Czech play in which an artificial worker was used for servitude, which in Czech is "robota".

Robonaut, a NASA robot (taken to the International Space Station in 2008) to test interaction between astronauts and an anthropoid machine. © NASA Robonaut, a NASA robot (taken to the International Space Station in 2008) to test interaction between astronauts and an anthropoid machine. © NASA

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