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(Spoiler warning for R.U.R.) Robot PrecursorsĪutomatons and mechanical human facsimiles have been a part of literature for thousands of years. Robot means, according to Merriam Webster, “a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently and performing complex actions.” Or, on a rudimentary level, “a device that automatically performs complicated, often repetitive tasks.”īut, to really get to the source of the robot definition, we have to take a trip back to 1920, Czechoslovakia. Nowadays, the term robot has come to mean a few different things, whether that’s Terminator, a Roomba, or the industrial robots used on manufacturing assembly lines.
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