### device | mechanism:

Robot
* All robots have the ability to walk, talk, play music and interact with curious observers.
* Many robots only have arms
  - use wheels for locomotion
* Most robots use a fan, either a bare propeller or a small, self-contained unit
  - either battery packs or some other fuel to propel themselves
  - wheels, treads, or large sets of legs to traverse their environments
* Some robots absorb energy
  - fight in an arena, firing missiles and avoiding enemies' projectiles
* Some robots have eyes
  - more than six degrees of freedom, some less, depending on the kind of work they do
  - react directly to their inputs without memory or inferences
  - seek light while others walk
  - use expert systems or neural nets to recognize shapes
* also attack humans in video and computer games
  - make and package drugs, textiles, and foods
  - work as hospital helpers to help doctors save lives
* are a fact of life on the Internet
  - action movies
  - always heroes in comic books
  - an important class of link-aware applications
  - automation
* are capable of can meat
  - developing, as they all have artificial intelligence
  - computer controlled devices
  - electronic devices
  - explorers and remote agents to machines that expand our experience
  - ideal for transporting goods around factories
  - inorganic, and consciousness can only exist in an organic brain
* are located in computer games
  - garages
  - laboratories
  - manufacturing plants
  - science fiction
  - space shuttles
  - tv shows
  - machines that use a computer brain to think
  - made of metal
  - mechanical devices
  - neither inherently good or evil
  - one aspect of articifical intelligence research
  - programs that can perform additional functions and add new features to the mail server
  - singles
  - slaves
  - small computer programs that know how to do one particular task or set of tasks
  - software tools
  - uniformly heroes when they appear in popular Japanese cartoons and films
  - used extensively in industrial engineering
* are used for companionship
* are useful for automatic screening and optimization of crystallization conditions
  - in industry for a variety of reasons
  - workers
* behave like real physical object.
* build cars, sort mail, and manufacture millions of products.
* can assemble automobiles
  - be a whole variety of things
  - concentrate on a bounded task, such as a game of chess, far better than humans
  - fly and drive off of jumps
  - forge steel, weld cars together, and weave clothes
  - have behaviours
  - help disabled human beings
  - injure or kill
  - leave water trails in their environment
  - operate without attention or direction from their human masters
  - range from simple machines to highly complex, computer-controlled devices
  - read our minds
  - survive any where including on rock,in the arctic, and in the ocean
  - take on any form but some are made to resemble humans in appearance
  - use their precision to become surgeons and doctors
  - vary widely in their level of intelligence
  - work with harmful chemicals, explore the ocean floor, and travel into space
* come in all shapes and sizes
  - different sizes and shapes
* communicate when their antennae touch, forming intermittent noisy serial links.
* drive forwards, backwards, change direction, and pick up speed.
* eat, sleep, use potions etc.
* employ sensors to gain information about the environment
  - the same principles of command, feedback and control that animals do
* exist today.
* generally perform tasks too dangerous or tedious for humans
  - work from a fixed position on the production line, performing a single task
* have a mechanical arm that can be used to drop and pick up one beeper at a time
  - blood
  - electrical components which power and control the machinery
* have many applications in environmental restoration and waste management
  - types of ways to make themselves go
  - programming to make their choices
  - two components, the physical part and the control system part
  - very clumsy hands and arms
* human machine.
* includes sections.
* means a device that acts automatically.
* move from one computer to another as they evolve.
* often retrieve information in parallel.
* perform tasks more accurately and quickly than human hands.
* replace human hands along an assembly line.
* roll forward, backward and spin around as they move into position and avoid shut-down.
* typically use static and quasistatic methods to interact with the world.
* use end-effectors to accomplish a task
  - infrared sensors and computer vision to see
  - many predefined functions, to control what their actions
  - sensors to get information about their surroundings
* word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing.
+ Robot, Modern Robots
  * Robots now have many uses. Many factories use robots to do lots of hard work quickly and without many mistakes. These are 'industrial' robots.
+ WALL-E, Plot: 2008 movies :: Disney animated movies :: English language movies :: Pixar movies
  * The viewer then gets a look at how life has changed on the ship. All people sit in chairs and are very fat because they do not exercise and due to how a lack of gravity destroys their muscles. Robots do most of the work. EVE is sent to the Captain's pad. If plant life is found, the ship will turn back to Earth. However, by the time she arrives in the captain's area, the plant is gone.