... were developing. He passed away as a result of heart and kidney failure on April 6, 1992, at the age of 72. Isaac Asimov's writing spanned a vast array of concepts, styles and themes. Having published over five hundred books over more than five decades, Asimov touched upon countless topics. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction. In the beginning of his career, he essentially wrote ... opposite charge of an electron) and most importantly the term 'robotics,' which is the study and use of robot technology. Most of Isaac Asimov's stories about robots follow a very similar plot, one wh...

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... are generally depicted as working in the service of people, but often escaping the control of the people and doing them harm. The word robot comes from the Czech writer Karel Capek's 1921 playR.U.R.? (which stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots"), in which mechanical beings made to be ... perform more than one kind of task. If it is given a complex manipulator arm, its abilities can be enormously increased. The first such robot was designed by Victor Scheinman, a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. It was...

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