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A brief history of robots

 
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A robot can be defined as a programable, self controlled device consisting of electronic,
electrical, or mechanical units. The notion of robots or robot-like automates can be traced
back to medieval times. Although people of that era didn't have a term to describe what we
would eventually call a robot, they were nevertheless imagining mechanisms that could
perform human like tasks.
As early as 270 BC an ancient engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with
moveable figures. In ...

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