- “Robots “ comes from the Czech word robota , meaning “drudgery”.
- Modern robots can respond to emotion and to the smell of fine wines.
- More than a million, industrial robots are now in use, nearly half of them in Japan.
- MIT’s Media Lab is trying to make robots personal, developing RoCo-a computer with a monitor for a head and neck- and Leonardo, a sort of super –Furly designed to respond to emotional cues.
- Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick calls himself the world’s first cyborg, with computer chips implemented in his left arm. He can remotely operate doors, an artificial hand and an electronic wheeler.
- Elektro, the world’s first humanoid robot, debuted in 1939.Built by Westinghouse, the seven-foot-tall walking machine “spoke “ more than 700 words stored on 78-rpm records to simulate conversion.
- Shreya S
II BCA
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