HISTORY OF ROBOTICS

Robots in Modern Culture

Rossum's Universal Robotsby Karel Čapek

displaced older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world

Definition of a Robot• robot • Pronunciation: \ˈrō-ˌbät, -bət\• Function: noun • Etymology: Czech, from robota compulsory labor; akin to

Old High German arabeit trouble, Latin orbus orphaned • Date: 1923

• 1 a : a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) of a human being; also : a similar but fictional machine whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized b : an efficient insensitive person who functions automatically

• 2 : a device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks

• 3 : a mechanism guided by automatic controls

Isaac Asimov

• Father of the modern Robot Story

• Columbia University

• Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948

Robotics

• Invented by Isaac Asimov• “Runaround” –Published in 1942

Robot-as-Menace

• “There are some things man was not meant to know”

Robot-as-Pathos

• Loveable robots usually put upon by cruel human beings

• “Helen O’Loy” by Lester del Rey• “Robbie” –Isaac AsimovOriginally appeared as “Strangle Playfellow”

Robots as Industrial Products

• While writing his first robot story as a robot-as-pathos he had a vision of writing a story as neither menace or pathos. Began thinking of robots as industrial products built by manner of fact engineers. With safety features so no menace and they were fashioned for certain jobs so no pathos was necessarily involded

• Unimation, Inc – Joseph F. Engelberger

Three Laws of Robotics

• 1.) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

• 2.) A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

• 3.) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Robot vs. Man

Conclusion

• Isaac Asimov shifted the view of robots from Robot-as-menace and Robot-as-pathos to Robot as a industrial product.

• Maybe people have been inspired by these works. Leading to technological innovations.

Resources• INFO:• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robots• The Complete Robot Isaac Asimov 1982• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum's_Universal_Robots)• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Education_and_career

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