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  2. History of robots - Wikipedia

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    The most famous Japanese robotic automaton was presented to the public in 1927. The Gakutensoku was supposed to have a diplomatic role. Actuated by compressed air, it could write fluidly and raise its eyelids. [19] Many robots were constructed before the dawn of computer-controlled servomechanisms, for the public relations purposes of major firms.

  3. List of NASA robots - Wikipedia

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    The robot was redeveloped and implemented as a corresponding team of two 3 limbed robots, known as Tri-ATHLETs. This advancement allows for better cargo handling and loading and unloading of cargo as the two robots can connect under the cargo dock and separate from each other and lower the cargo at its destination.

  4. Animatronics - Wikipedia

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    Before the term "animatronics" became common, they were usually referred to as "Robots". [5] Since then, robots have become known as more practical programmable machines that do not necessarily resemble living creatures. [6] Robots (or other artificial beings) designed to convincingly resemble humans are known as "androids".

  5. Robotics - Wikipedia

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    These presets could possibly be transferred for use in real-life robots. An example of a robot with artificial emotions is Robin the Robot developed by an Armenian IT company Expper Technologies, which uses AI-based peer-to-peer interaction.

  6. Robot - Wikipedia

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    The term comes from a Slavic root, robot-, with meanings associated with labor. The word "robot" was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.

  7. Westinghouse robot Elektro's ownership in limbo - AOL

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    The fate of Mansfield's world-famous robot Elektro remains in limbo following the closure of the Mansfield Memorial Museum on July 4. ... Schaut also bequeathed all real estate to Rissover ...

  8. List of fictional robots and androids - Wikipedia

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    Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.

  9. Mecha - Wikipedia

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    It was the first real robot, in contrast to the super robots in earlier anime. In Japan, "robot anime" (known as "mecha anime" outside Japan) is one of the oldest genres in anime. [18] Robot anime is often tied in with toy manufacturers. Large franchises such as Gundam, Macross, Transformers, and Zoids have hundreds of different model kits.