Remove Automotive Remove Ethics Remove Film Remove Productivity
article thumbnail

What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

If you think more about industry, you might imagine a mechanical arm programmed to install parts on a production line. 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. If you have dirty floors, you might think of a Roomba. How is this so?