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ALSO CALLED: Ludobots, Differential Wheeled Robots, Humanoid Robots, Arthropod Robots, Domestic Robots, Service Robots, Autonomous Research Robots, Military Robots, Industrial Robots, Educational Robots, and BEAM Robotics
DEFINITION: A robot is a machine designed to execute one or more tasks repeatedly, with speed and precision. There are as many different types of robots as there are tasks for them to perform.

A robot can be controlled by a human operator, sometimes from a great distance. But most robots are controlled by computer, and fall into either of two categories: autonomous robots and insect robots. An autonomous robot  … 
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ROBOTS DEFINITION (continued): …  acts as a stand-alone system, complete with its own computer (called the controller). Insect robots work in fleets ranging in number from a few to thousands, with all fleet members under the supervision of a single controller. The term insect arises from the similarity of the system to a colony of insects, where the individuals are simple but the fleet as a whole can be sophisticated.

Robots are sometimes grouped according to the time frame in which they were first widely used. First-generation robots date from the 1970s and consist of stationary, nonprogrammable, electromechanical devices without … 
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