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This 6 page paper begins with an brief introduction to robots, the definition and criteria to be named a robot. The writer then provides a brief history of robots and robotics, beginning with the first mechanical bird invented in 350 BC. The next section discusses the positive social impact robots and robotics are having followed by the potentially harmful effects. The paper ends with comments about the future of robotic technology. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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are going into live volcanoes, they are going to the Antarctica, they drive trains in Paris and they defuse bombs in Northern Ireland (Tesler). They are becoming smarter and more
versatile and they are doing more and more of the tasks that are too dangerous for humans and even tasks humans just dont want to do, like vacuuming (Tesler). One
complicating factor when discussing robots is that there is not precise single definition for a robot (Tesler). Generally, it is accepted that "a robot is a programmable machine that imitates
the actions or appearance of an intelligent creature-usually a human" (Tesler 2005). There are two criteria for a machine to be categorized as a robot: first, the machine must be
gain information from its environment and second, the machine must do something physical, like moving something or manipulating something (Tesler). The word robot itself is from robota, a Czech word
that means "drudgery or slave-like labor" (Tesler 2005). Brief History of Robots Anyone thinking robots are a modern invention would be very surprised to know that Archytas, a Greek
mathematician, built a mechanical bird in 350 B.C. that flew, thus it was a type of robot (Isom). In 1495, Leonardo DaVinci designed his famous armored knight, a mechanical device
(Isom). Skipping ahead passing other inventions, we find that in 1898, Nikola Tesla built and demonstrated a robot boat that was remotely controlled (Isom). In 1961, Heinrich Ernst, at MIT,
built a mechanical hand controlled by a computer (Isom). An industrial arm robot was introduced the following year in 1962 and was put into action by General Motors to perform
some of the more dangerous tasks of assembling a car (Isom). A more advanced robotic arm was introduced in 1969 by Victor Scheinman, a student (Isom). In 1986, Honda started
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