![]() Since the use of the modifier ‘especially’ implicitly extends the definition of robot to all forms of machine that carry out complex actions automatically, we must look back to before the age of computers for the first examples of robots. But it is the real-world use of robot to describe a type of machine in which we are interested here: ‘ a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by computer’. One is limited to the realm of science fiction, while another is figuratively employed in respect of people. Oxford Dictionaries gives multiple definitions of robot. Written and researched by Philip Graves for GWS Robotics, 25th-28th June, 2018
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