Introduction to Robotics - 1

Word robot was coined by a Czech novelist Karel Capek in a 1920 play titled Rassum’sUniversal Robots (RUR)

 

Robot in Czech is a word forworker or servant

Definition of robot:

Any machine made by by one our members: Robot Institute of America. A robot is a reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks: Robot Institute of America, 1979