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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. Controlled by a program on a magnetic drum, the robot relied on hydraulic actuators to adjust its position over a set of pre-programmed joint angles. How is this so? Today, more than 1.3