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Interesting. I wonder: is it common for people to associate the word robot with a humanoid form, or had your wife recently watched iRobot?
by grannyg00se 15y ago
Interesting. I wonder: is it common for people to associate the word robot with a humanoid form, or had your wife recently watched iRobot?
- wtvanhest 15y agoYes it is. People don't understand my dishwasher is the one of the greatest robots in my house.
- lloeki 15y agoFunnily the actual word for humanoid robots is android, but it seems Star Wars whacked the meaning of droid so far off its original meaning (screw you R2D2) that for the masses the meanings of robot and android are reversed. PS: (nitpicky) it's "I, Robot".
- eru 15y agoRobot originally referred to andoids, too. The word was invented by Karel Čapek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek) for one of his plays. I recommend his "War with the Newts".