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The Robot App Store is a digital application distribution platform for applications for robots opened to the public on late 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The service allows users to browse and download applications that were developed for robots, and published through the RobotAppStore.com website.
In 2006, Cornell University revealed its "Starfish" robot, a four-legged robot capable of self modeling [clarification needed] and learning to walk after having been damaged. [111] In 2007, TOMY launched the entertainment robot, i-sobot, a humanoid bipedal robot that can walk like a human and performs kicks and punches and also some ...
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.
The first Atlas robot was a bipedal hydraulic humanoid robot primarily developed by Boston Dynamics with funding and oversight from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The robot was initially designed for a variety of search and rescue tasks, and was unveiled to the public on July 11, 2013.
Optimus (named after the Transformers character with the same name), also known as Tesla Bot, is a general-purpose robotic humanoid under development by Tesla, Inc. [1] It was announced at the company's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day event on August 19, 2021, [1] and a prototype was shown in 2022.
Sophia's internals. Sophia was first activated on Valentine's Day, [9] February 14, 2016. [2] The robot, modeled after the Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, [10] Audrey Hepburn, and its inventor's wife, Amanda Hanson, [1] [11] is known for its human-like appearance and behavior compared to previous robotic variants.
Robby the Robot originated as a supporting character in the 1956 MGM science fiction film Forbidden Planet. [4] The film's storyline centers on a crew of Earth explorers who land their starship, the C57-D, on the planet Altair IV, inhabited by the mysterious human Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who was born there.
It is also possible to list multiple robots with their own rules. The actual robot string is defined by the crawler. A few robot operators, such as Google, support several user-agent strings that allow the operator to deny access to a subset of their services by using specific user-agent strings. [17] Example demonstrating multiple user-agents: