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Additionally, since swarms of xenobots tend to work together to push microscopic pellets in their dish into central piles, [2] it has been speculated that future xenobots might be able to find and aggregate tiny bits of ocean-polluting microplastics into a large ball of plastic that a traditional boat or drone could gather and bring to a ...
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.
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. In general, humanoid robots have a torso, a head ...
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.
Animat are artificial animals; the term is a contraction of "animal" and "materials" [1] (and, coincidentally, also the third-person indicative present of the Latin verb animō [2] which means to "animate, give or bring life" [3]). The term includes physical robots and virtual simulations.
The animated feature adapted from the popular children's books crafts a lovely, bittersweet parable of parenting.
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Robots that are intended to play with children usually look like animals and can make different sounds, move, walk and play. Robot dogs, for example, can bark, move their tail, run or play with a child. There are also robots that can be mounted and used for transport. Some of these move by rolling. [18]