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Old September 10th 18, 06:11 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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Default What is not a robot?

On 9/11/2018 12:51 AM, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:

The origin of robot is from Czech, robota, coined in the play by Capek
in 1920. Robota means forced labor.


But in modern context, is the word "robot" confined to machines with AI?

And in its old context, workers are all robots from the eyes of the rich
in Middle-East? They beileved their fossil oil controls world economy, I
supposed.

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