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It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history. Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 and first performed in 1921.
This category contains biorobots that are made to resemble animals in behavior and possibly appearance. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
In most cases, the robot's appearance has been modeled after an average young woman of Japanese descent. The Actroid woman is a pioneer example of a real machine similar to imagined machines called by the science fiction terms android or gynoid, so far used only for fictional robots. It can mimic such lifelike functions as blinking, speaking ...
The animals are controlled by the use of radio signals. The electrodes do not move the animal directly, as if controlling a robot; rather, they signal a direction or action desired by the human operator and then stimulate the animal's reward centres if the animal complies. These are sometimes called bio-robots or robo-animals.
The term has long been commonly associated with automated puppets that resemble moving humans or animals, built to impress and/or to entertain people. Animatronics are a modern type of automata with electronics , often used for the portrayal of characters or creatures in films and in theme park attractions.
The animated feature adapted from the popular children's books crafts a lovely, bittersweet parable of parenting.
Equipped with light sensors, the robot receives input about its location in the playpen from infrared signals lining the borders. [ 1 ] What separates a hybrot from a cyborg is that the latter term is commonly used to refer to a cybernetically enhanced human or animal; while a hybrot is an entirely new type of creature constructed from organic ...
The bishop-fish, from Poland in the 16th century. Lists of humanoids cover humanoids, imaginary species similar to humans.They are organized by type (avian, piscine and amphibian, reptilian, and extraterrestrial), and by medium (literature, comics, animation, television, film and video games).