A robot is a mechatronic device (combining mechanical, electronic and computer) automatically performing tasks that are usually dangerous, painful, repetitive or impossible for humans, or simpler tasks but achieving them better than would a human being .
The word robot, which first appeared in Karel ÄŒapek's science fiction play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), was invented by his brother Josef from Czech word "robota" which means "chore".
The most advanced robots are able to move and recharge on their own, like the ASIMO robot manufactured by Honda or the NAO robot manufactured by Aldebaran Robotics.
Despite their high cost at the time (lack of powerful mass-produced microprocessors), robots became essential in the early 1970s, for certain tasks such as painting car bodies, in an atmosphere of toxic vapors. Since then, the evolution of electronics and computers has allowed robots to perform more and more complex tasks, with more and more autonomy, and more and more quickly.
The term "robot" is also used to designate a device that is not automatic, to evoke the high technicality of the device, like the robot surgeon Da Vinci.
The word robot, which first appeared in Karel ÄŒapek's science fiction play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), was invented by his brother Josef from Czech word "robota" which means "chore".
The most advanced robots are able to move and recharge on their own, like the ASIMO robot manufactured by Honda or the NAO robot manufactured by Aldebaran Robotics.
Despite their high cost at the time (lack of powerful mass-produced microprocessors), robots became essential in the early 1970s, for certain tasks such as painting car bodies, in an atmosphere of toxic vapors. Since then, the evolution of electronics and computers has allowed robots to perform more and more complex tasks, with more and more autonomy, and more and more quickly.
The term "robot" is also used to designate a device that is not automatic, to evoke the high technicality of the device, like the robot surgeon Da Vinci.
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