Industrial robots and machine intelligence

摘要

The term 'robot' was coined by Karl Capels for the humanoid beings synthesized artificially by one Prof Rossum in his play RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots. These robots were facsimiles of homo sapiens, so much so that, having rebelled and all but exterminated the human race and themselves, the last couple spontaneously experienced emotion and were mysteriously enjoined to "go forth and repopulate the earth".