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  2. History of robots - Wikipedia

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    A trumpet-playing Toyota robot. The history of robots has its origins in the ancient world. During the Industrial Revolution, humans developed the structural engineering capability to control electricity so that machines could be powered with small motors. In the early 20th century, the notion of a humanoid machine was developed.

  3. Robot - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota ' servitude ' (' work ' in contemporary Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *orbh-. Robot is cognate with the German Arbeit ' work '. [79] [80] English pronunciation of the word has evolved relatively quickly since its introduction.

  4. Timeline of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) opened in London. This is the first use of the word "robot" in English. [44] 1920-1925 Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising created and analyzed the Ising model (1925) [45] which can be viewed as the first artificial recurrent neural network (RNN) consisting of neuron-like threshold elements. [9]

  5. Robotics - Wikipedia

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    Mimicking the way real snakes move, these robots can navigate very confined spaces, meaning they may one day be used to search for people trapped in collapsed buildings. [100] The Japanese ACM-R5 snake robot [101] can even navigate both on land and in water. [102]

  6. Can't Help Myself (Sun Yuan and Peng Yu) - Wikipedia

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    The audience surveying the repetitive duty of the robot keeps them engaged in the piece and contemplate its meaning and significance. [3] Furthermore, the repeated duty of Can't Help Myself gives it a sense of consciousness as a life-form, one that has been captured, confined, and subject to a task in a given space. [1]

  7. Klaatu barada nikto - Wikipedia

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    "Klaatu barada nikto" is a phrase that originated in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) that if any harm befalls him, she must say the phrase to the robot Gort (Lockard Martin).

  8. ‘I, Robot’ Director Accuses Elon Musk of Taking His Ideas for ...

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    On Thursday, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, unveiled a long-awaited glimpse into the future with models for their new self-driving prototypes: the cybercab and the robovan. Also at the ...

  9. Automaton - Wikipedia

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    The word automaton is the latinization of the Ancient Greek automaton (αὐτόματον), which means "acting of one's own will".It was first used by Homer to describe an automatic door opening, [2] or automatic movement of wheeled tripods. [3]