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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. Imagine: Future robots could be built to include a kind of ethical clause that limits what they are allowed to do.