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geestar20
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_ 		16. June 2004 @ 09:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
QUESTION: Where do the terms "robot" and "robotics" come from?

ANSWER: In 1921, as social upheavals shook Europe in the aftermath of World War I, Czech playwright Karel Capek's play R.U.R., for Rossum's Universal Robots, premiered in Prague. The play told of mechanical humans, or robots, created solely to be slave workers. Robot comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "forced labor, drudgery, servitude." In R.U.R., the robots eventually rise against their human masters.

The late Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), an author of science fiction and books popularizing science, claimed credit for "robotics" as a term for the science and technology of robots.

In his 1942 sci-fi story Runaround, Asimov stated the ethical guidelines he called the "Three Laws of Robotics":

1. A robot must not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where those orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence, except where such protection would conflict with the First or Second Law.

Despite his interest in nearly every aspect of science, Asimov says in his 1983 book Counting the Eons that he had scant knowledge about how real robots work when he came up with his three laws.
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Toiletman
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_ 		16. June 2004 @ 09:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Damn, the terminators must be very bad robots.
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Everyone is entitled to their own true opinion. Either respect that or don't.


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