What is Robotics?

Robotics uses robots, engineering and programming to make machines that are used to perform
tasks for us human beings whether simple or difficult. They are also used in some cases for sports
an example I can give based on experiences would be Sumobots as the name states it is sumo
wrestling but with robots, The robots are put into a circle ring and the job is to push the opposing
bot out of the ring

What year was the word robot coined?

The year the word robot was coined was in 1920 which came from a novelist and journalist named
Karel Capek, Who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R or Rossum’s Universal Robots

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