Dextrous drudgery

We temporarily interrupt the regular broadcast of this blog with a special public service announcement. There seems to be some confusion out there about the term “robot”. A robot such as Roomba is an autonomous physical device, that is, one that makes its decisions based solely on its internal state and sensory history and is not controlled remotely. Therefore, all those devices that you see in those Battlebots shows (of course the show producers would like to pretend otherwise, as a show with a
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