ICT Robotics :- Robotics is an academic discipline of science and technology related to all kinds of robots. Then, what is a robot? Unfortunately, there is no exact definition on robots, but by general agreement a robot is a programmable machine that imitates the actions or appearance of an intelligent creature, usually a human. Figure 1 shows examples of these robots similar to animals and humans.
ICT Robotics
robot, any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots.
The concept of artificial humans predates recorded history (see automaton), but the modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (“forced labour” or “serf”), used in Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920). The play’s robots were manufactured humans, heartlessly exploited by factory owners until they revolted and ultimately destroyed humanity. Whether they were biological, like the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), or mechanical was not specified, but the mechanical alternative inspired generations of inventors to build electrical humanoids.
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