... 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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... than we are (Sawyer, 28 May 2003). However, there will be rules restricting the behaviors of robots as Isaac Asimov stated the Three Laws of Robotics in his book I, Robot; 1- A robot may not injure a human being, or, through action, allow a human being to come to harm. 2- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First ... Law. 3- A robot must protect its own existence, except where such protection would conflict with the First or Second Law. (Sawyer, 28 May 2003) In fact, all these artificial lives are programmed by ... ...

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