Understanding Robotics and Terminology

Czech playwright who first used the term "robot" in 1921.

• William Shakespeare

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Karel Capek

• Alexander Graham Bell

The term "robot" means what in Karel Capek's play R.U.R

• friend

• forced labor or servant

• enemy

• worker

Co-developer of Unimate, gets the credit for being the "Father of Modern Robotics"

• Alan Turing

• Isaac Asimov

• Joseph Engelberger

• George Devol

a robot is a machine programmed to

• move only on command

• move and perform actions automatically

• play games

• cook and clean

the engineering discipline dealing with the creating, designing and operation of robots

• civil engineering

• flight engineering

• robotics

• electrical engineering

the first industrial robot

• Ultimate

• ATLAS

• Unimate

• Enigma

who said " I don't know how to define one, but I know one when I see one!"

• George Devol

• George Patton

• Joseph Engelberger

• Barrack Obama

a mechanical device for moving and controlling a mechanism

• actuator

• end effector

• controller

• solenoid

another device for moving a robot's arms and legs

• controller

• wheel

• piston

• end effectors

the tools at the end of the robots arms are called...

• hands

• controller

• actuator

• end effectors