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posted by Fang Bastardson at 2:57 AM
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
About Me
- Name: Fang Bastardson
- Location: Nowheresville, Kansas
Born in the wild to Canadian Timberwolves, Fang was wrestled from his mother's teat at an early age and placed in the custody of a government sponsored think tank in New York City. He escaped at age seven by gnawing off a doo-claw and has been riding a wave of self-righteous indignation to Nowheresville, baby, ever since. He is currently enjoying being a PhD (by marriage), but on the advice of his attorney has refused all comment except to assert an apparently deeply-held conviction that frozen strawberries should be thawed, not microwaved.
Previous Posts
- Another long-winded political treatise, election 2...
- This was me a few days ago
- The five stages of Trump
- My Summer Of Love
- I Pity The Fool
- The Great Eights
- A nosebleed seat to the Apocalypse?
- Karen Thomason was here
- Fun at the walk-in clinic
- This year's Father's Day photo
1 Comments:
Robotics is a branch of engineering that involves the conception, design, manufacture and operation of robotics. The objective of the robotics field is to create intelligent machines that can assist humans in a variety of ways.
Robotics can take on a number of forms. A robot may resemble a human, or it may be in the form of a robotic application, such as robotic process automation (RPA), which simulates how humans engage with software to perform repetitive, rules-based tasks.
While the field of robotics and exploration of the potential uses and functionality of robots have grown substantially in the 20th century, the idea is certainly not a new one.
The term robotics is an extension of the word robot. One of its first uses came from Czech writer Karel Čapek, who used the word in his play, Rossum's Universal Robots, in 1920.
However, it is science fiction author Isaac Asimov who has been given credit for being the first person to use the term in the 1940s by Oxford English Dictionary.
In Asimov's story, he suggested three principles to guide the behavior of autonomous robots and smart machines.
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have survived to the present:
Robots must never harm human beings.
Robots must follow instructions from humans without violating rule 1.
Robots must protect themselves without violating the other rules.
However, it wasn't until a couple of decades later in 1961 -- based on designs from the '50s -- that the first programmable robot, Unimate, was created to move scalding metal pieces from a die-cast machine.
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