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ROBOT BASICS
1. a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently (as by walking or rolling on wheels) and performing complex actions (such as grasping and moving objects). Often, such a machine is built to resemble a human being or animal in appearance and behavior.
2. a device that automatically performs complicated, often repetitive tasks (as in an industrial assembly line), or a mechanism guided by automatic controls.
3. a person who resembles a machine in seeming to function automatically or in lacking normal feelings or emotions.
"It was in 1920, in Prague, that history’s first ever “robots” appeared, scribbled in longhand in the pages of R.U.R., a play written that year by the brilliant Czech writer Karel Čapek. The initials are explained in the subtitle: Rossum’s Universal Robots, the name of the company at the centre of the drama, a business devoted to making artificial people..."
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