robot

Also known as robo, 🤖, bot

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A robot is a machine designed to perform tasks automatically, often mimicking human or animal movements and actions. Robots matter because they can handle repetitive, dangerous, or precise work that would be difficult, unsafe, or inefficient for humans to do.

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Commons category: Robots
Unicode character: 🤖
Commons gallery: Robot
time of earliest written record: 1920-00-00
hashtag: robot

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Etymology
Summary
History
Early beginnings
Greek engineers
Chinese texts
Indian automata
Mesopotamia
England
Italy
Japan
France
Switzerland
Remote-controlled systems
Early robots
Modern autonomous robots
Future development and trends
New functionalities and prototypes
Etymology
Modern robots
Mobile robot
Industrial robots (manipulating)
Service robot
Educational (interactive) robots
Modular robot
Collaborative robots
Robots in society
Autonomy and ethical questions
Military robots
Relationship to unemployment
Contemporary uses
General-purpose autonomous robots
Factory robots
Car production
Packaging
Electronics
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs)
Early AGV-style robots
Interim AGV technologies
Intelligent AGVs (i-AGVs)
Dirty, dangerous, dull, or inaccessible tasks
Space probes
Telerobots
Automated fruit harvesting machines
Domestic robots
Military robots
Mining robots
Healthcare
Home automation for the elderly and disabled
Pharmacies
Research robots
Bionic and biomimetic robots
Nanorobots
Reconfigurable robots
Robotic, mobile laboratory operators
Soft-bodied robots
Swarm robots
Haptic interface robots
Contemporary art and sculpture
Robots in popular culture
Literature
Robot competitions
Films
Sex robots
Problems depicted in popular culture
See also
Specific robotics concepts
Robotics methods and categories
Specific robots and devices
Other related articles
Further reading
References
External links

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A robot is a machine, especially one programmable via a computer, capable of automatically carrying out a complex series of actions. A robot can be guided by an external or internal control device. Robots may be humanoid, but most are task-performing machines prioritizing functionality over aesthetics.