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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.
Militaries like the US, China, and Russia are building robot dogs to employ in security and combat operations. Some of these remote-controlled canines feature guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers
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.
The animated feature adapted from the popular children's books crafts a lovely, bittersweet parable of parenting.
I Robot, available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi [citation needed] Tombot, a robotic companion animal designed to be a viable option to a real dog for dementia patients; Joinmax Digital Robot Dog JM-DOG-001], offered as a semi-assembled kit (no soldering required) at $331, it offers a 15 servo-based impressive freedom of ...
Robots (or other artificial beings) designed to convincingly resemble humans are known as "androids". The term Animatronics is a portmanteau of animate and electronics . The term Audio-Animatronics was coined by Walt Disney in 1961 [ 7 ] when he started developing professional animatronics for entertainment and film.
the automaton type – made from a mix of dead and living parts, including automatons and robots [4] Although human morphology is not necessarily the ideal form for working robots, the fascination in developing robots that can mimic it can be found historically in the assimilation of two concepts: simulacra (devices that exhibit likeness) and ...
More than 20 years later, various projects have created parts of the octopus such as a soft robotic arm that has many of the features of a tentacle, and today there are a number of projects ...