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What makes robots tick?

✍ Scribed by J. Hatvany

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
272 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
0736-5845

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✦ Synopsis

The word "robot" is usually attributed to the Czechoslovak writer ~apek. Reviewing his mechanistically physiological image, we are led back further in Czech history to the "Golem" of 16th century Prague. Based on Talmudic and Cabbalistic tradition this legendmwhose origins go back to the 11th centurymseparates material and non-material properties. The latter are characterized by kno wledge, numbers and procedures. An attempt is made to show how these three concepts can be used in designing software for today's industrial robots. Software which is properly designed is much better than that which simply emerges from ad hoc considerations.

1. HISTORY

The word "robot" (which in Russian simply means work) is, in the sense in which we use it today,

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