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History Of Robotics

The word 'robot' comes from the Czech word 'robata', meaning 'slave labor' or 'forced lab our'. It was first used in 1921 by Karel Capek in his satirical drama 'Rossum's Universal Robots'. Capeks robots had arms and legs like humans, but worked twice as hard. The term 'robotics' was first used by an American, Isaac Asimov in his short story 'Runaround'. This story introduced the 'three rules of robotics':

A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow one to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first and second laws.

For a robot to be able to adhere to these rules it would have to be very advanced. Such a robot would not be practical to produce using todays technology, so for now, robots will just be doing the job they were made for and nothing else.

The number of robots in the United States almost doubled in the 1990s, with robots doing an increasing number of diverse jobs. It is predicted that robot technology will become more available for everyday household and small business functions. This will create a need for innovative ways of integrating robots into increasingly technology dependent lives. Currently most advanced robots are custom made for a particular task and expensive to produce. Other robots are designed simplistically as toys or gadgets, and as such are mass produced and relatively cheap to produce. As technology progresses robots will become cheaper and more advanced. This will allow for them to be owned by the average individual, and we will start seeing them in homes quite soon.

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AristhSunday, 21st September 2008 1:21am - No.3130
Excuse me, I would like to know what company made the small robot arm.
javm_jose@hotmail.com
 
RMCyberneticsTuesday, 23rd September 2008 1:55pm - No.3132
What robot arm?
 
MikeSaturday, 17th January 2009 6:34pm - No.3488
Hi,
I have been playing with vrml and X3d now for about 10 years.
Some of my projects have been for work at the national lab I work for (sorry can't let you see those) but I have some others I will let you see in a bit.
My question for you guys is what browser extensions do you use? I have found that there are none that will do everything and few hat do all of the things i want to do.
I use cortona for vrml 95 and vrml 1. For X3d and use with javascript for ajax3d I find that only flux3d is able to handle it without crashing.
ajax3d allows better access to databases and inputs from things like data sampling (for do 3d animation of a sampled process or plant status in real time.)
For 3d input in my worlds I have experimented with using a P5 glove as well and a 6 degrees of freedom ball mouse.

 

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