A robot is an automatic mechanical device often resembling a human or animal.

Modern robots are usually an electro-mechanical machine guided by a computer

program or electronic circuitry.
Robots have replaced humans in the assistance of performing repetitive and dangerous
tasks that humans are unable to do.

More than a million industrial robots are now in use, nearly half of them are in Japan.
Robots are blamed for rising unemployment as they replace workers in increasing numbers of
functions.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, a robot is "any automatically operated machine that
replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform
functions in a humanlike manner.

Industrial robots, service robots, domestic robots, educational robots, modular

robots, collaborative robots, military robots are the various kinds of robots.