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Hexapod (walker) A six-legged walking robot, using a simple insect-like locomotion. Human–computer interaction. Humanoid A robotic entity designed to resemble a human being in form, function, or both. Hydraulics, the control of mechanical force and movement, generated by the application of liquid under pressure. c.f. pneumatics.
H.E.R.B.I.E. (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-Type, Integrated Electronics) is a fictional robot appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was initially conceived for The New Fantastic Four and integrated into the comics continuity shortly afterwards. The character is usually depicted as an ally of the Fantastic ...
Johnny 5 and the other S-A-I-N-T (Strategic-Artificially-Intelligent-Nuclear-Transport) military robots in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988) and later Hot Cars, Cold Facts (1990) Jinx from the film SpaceCamp (1986) Bishop in Aliens (1986) R.A.L.F. (Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator) and MAX (TriMAXion Drone Ship) in Flight of ...
The term comes from a Slavic root, robot-, with meanings associated with labor. The word "robot" was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.
This is a wrist about which the three axes of the wrist, controlling yaw, pitch, and roll, all pass through a common point. An example of a wrist singularity is when the path through which the robot is traveling causes the first and third axes of the robot's wrist (i.e. robot's axes 4 and 6) to line up.
Valkyrie, a humanoid robot, [1] from NASA A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes.
The series replaced the character of the Human Torch with a robot named H.E.R.B.I.E., (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics). A long-lasting rumor stated that this change was made by the TV network ( NBC ) because executives did not want young viewers to imitate the Human Torch by setting themselves on fire.
The robotic character R. Daneel Olivaw was the first to give the Zeroth Law a name in the novel Robots and Empire; [19] however, the character Susan Calvin articulates the concept in the short story "The Evitable Conflict". In the final scenes of the novel Robots and Empire, R. Giskard Reventlov is