CaveLamb wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
CaveLamb wrote:
Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Wes wrote:
This is semantics, of course. My main problem with calling CNC
machines "robots" is then what do you call an autonomous machine?
The Japanese use the word robot for any semi-intelligent machine.

It doesn't have to walk around, drink cervesa and smoke cigars like
Bender.

The word robot is from the Czech word robota, implying slave labor.

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/RUR/

You have to give me a teaser to get me to wonder into no-man's land, Rich.

Rossum's Universal Robots, by Karel Capek, written in Czech in 1920,
translated to English in 1923, that defines "Robot" for the first time.

Hope This Helps!
Rich