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My definition of a 'robot' is a machine with motor functions and can make its own decision on how to act in reaction to its environment. For example, a phone i
by kiba 9y ago
My definition of a 'robot' is a machine with motor functions and can make its own decision on how to act in reaction to its environment.
For example, a phone isn't a robot, not unless you give it wheels and the ability to act.
- hugs 9y agoBy that definition, a clothes dryer with a humidity sensor is a robot. (And I'm fine with that!)
- eru 9y agoMy favourite robot is a dishwasher. Mostly because it is so different from what some people naively imagine when you asked them to think of a design for a robot to wash dishes.
- jabretti 9y agoAre these people being naive, or are they just designing a better dish-washing robot? The typical "dish washing robot" that people draw does a much better job of washing dishes. It doesn't require me to do all the hard work of scrubbing away all the tricky bits of stuck-on food before entrusting the robot with the work, nor the annoying work of unloading the dishwasher when it's done. I'll take my dish-washing robot over your boring old dishwasher any day of the week.
- 52-6F-62 9y agoI have to try that question on people sometime. Sounds like fun. Also, reminds me of this: Status: Alive http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Amana http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Amana
- frandroid 9y agoThe dishwasher is missing the thinking part... It only ever does the exact thing ordered to it.
- eru 9y agoBashing one's head against the wall in a day long debugging session for some hard bug usually cures people of the opinion that "computers only ever do what we tell them to do" is a serious limitation on their range of behaviours in practice.
- frandroid 9y agoThe combinations on my dishwasher can fit in a 12 line lookup table.
- icebraining 9y agoA phone isn't a robot Ahem: https://youtu.be/AKCpqqhe-S4?t=1m https://youtu.be/AKCpqqhe-S4?t=1m
- SurrealSoul 9y agoAny phone with a vibration motor would technically be a robot (vibrate when message received)