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definition
The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application
Examples of robotics in a Sentence
This film was definitely an endorsement for robotics.
Modern robotics is a rapidly expanding and growing field.
The pace of advancement in the field of robotics and nanotechnology roughly doubles every couple of years.
Although 4-H brings to mind images of raising cattle and cooking, participants can also focus on high-tech areas, such as robotics.
The vehicle is equipped with genetics, rocketry, robotics and earth science equipment and portable planetarium.
Everything we have talked about relating to the Internet and technology is coming to bear on robotics and nanotechnology.
With what scientists and engineers know about cybernetics and robotics they still have yet to create a real "fake" animal.
This robot was created by a robotics physicist, and is controlled via a wireless remote control, with over 40 preprogrammed functions.
The term robotics didn't come about until two decades later when Isaac Asimov used the word in 1941.
Gallatin County 4-H programs allow youth to develop their skills in areas as diverse as dog care, embroidery, and robotics.
Robotics became the word to describe technology associated with robots.
In 1942, he included "Three Laws of Robotics" in his story Runaround.
By 1956 robotics was becoming a part of reality when the first robot company came into existence.
It looked clunkier than the well-known Lost in Space robot, but Shakey's introduction was a big step forward in robotics and eventually led to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI).
It is often said that art mimics life, but in the case of robots, it seems life mimics art as the robotics of today try to catch up with the futuristic renditions available to generations of sci-fi enthusiasts.
People were both in awe of the amazing potential that a technology like robotics could offer, but they were also afraid of the possibility that a technology like robotics could also get out of hand.
There are many examples of the sort of robotic characters that sci-fi authors developed in an attempt to explore whether the advantages of robotics would outweigh the risks involved.
The following list are a few examples of how sci-fi authors have used robotics in their stories through the years.
B-9 - This robot, a famous icon from the Lost In Space saga from the 1960s, is a positive vote in favor of the advantages of robotics in the future.
Most of his science fiction was written in the '50s and '60s; he is most famous for the The Foundation Trilogy and The Robot Novels and Short Stories, in which he articulated the Three Laws of Robotics.
While the technology to create a Data-like android does not exist yet, modern robotics are working on it.
On major advancement in robotics is Honda's Asimo (which is not named for Isaac Asimov).
Science fiction writers often take simple robotics to the next level with imagination.
While robotics have been around since 270 BC, the term robot wasn't coined until 1921 when the Czech writer Karel Capek wrote a play called Rossum's Universal Robots, also known as R.U.R.
If you are at all a fan of the classic sci-fi films of the 1950s, then you know that there were many films that explored questions about the disadvantages or advantages of robotics within modern society.
On the other hand, countless movies and novels presented fictional future worlds where progress in the field of robotics had advanced so far that robots actually became equals with humans - with all of the same rights and privileges.