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Interesting question

Are AI, Self Aware None Organic beings, a Robot in the strictest sense of the word

Data, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 from BS Galactica,  etc etc are self aware and self fulfilling and certainly not a slave to humanity, so Cyborgs or Androids sure, but Robot I dont think so. They may have started out that way in the LAB but the versions we see are so much more and do not adhear to the Robot definition

So is an Artificial Intelegence with an Electromechanical / semi Organic Body a Robot, at what point does a Human with artificial Limbs and other mechanical / Electronics augmentations become a Robot then ?

Hmmm

Good questions, which leads to the base question: What is a robot?

I'll add my take on it.

1. Robots needs to be built by someone or something. In the basic sense they are made of man-made parts. This could get tricky if we ever get to the point where living tissue can be "built".

2. I've always felt that robots should be autonomous - i.e., no remote control.

Some sort of intelligence should be built in that guides it. So a toy car with sensors that keep it from hitting obstacles would be a basic robot, as long as it's driving around on it's own. Those toy bugs would also fall into that category. For me, many of those remote controlled battle-bots don't think qualify as robots.

As far as I recall, 'robot' comes from the Czechoslovakian word for 'slave', although I think it was used in closer reference to 'labour' or 'service'.

So possibly we could deem something a robot if it's a machine that performs work as instructed by a circuit or program or operator.

Interesting to note that 'android' is a masculine term, and refers to a robot that's designed in the shape of a man. The rarely used feminine version of the word (for female shaped robots) is 'gynoid'.

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In Russian, 'to work' is 'работать'. -> rabotat

Spanner Spencer wrote:

 

As far as I recall, 'robot' comes from the Czechoslovakian word for 'slave', although I think it was used in closer reference to 'labour' or 'service'.

I believe it's from Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (1920) also known as Rossum's Universal Robots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' has a theory (not saying I agree or disagree that it could occur!) that the word becomes meaningless towards the end of this century, because we won't understand the concept of 'human' or 'machine' any longer, it will all become blurred. Not only will artificial intelligence not be distinguishable from intelligence, but perhaps our brains will think the question nonsensical if we are asked what is the difference. It's a scary thought!

Ah, there you go! Seems closely related to the Slavic word.

Ah, there you go! Seems closely related to the Slavic word.