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Robot – a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically

Assassin – Paid murderer or killer

Robots:

• Robot is a machine that can carry out a series of tasks automatically
• Robot came from the Czech word Robotnik
  – Robota means servitude, forced labor
• Robot first used in a 1920 in a play
  – by Karel Capek called R.U.R.,Rossum’s Universal Robots.
• Not all robots are androids
• Robotic, behaving in a mechanical manner
• Killer Robot – robot that can make a decision to use lethal force without human intervention
• Militarized Robot – Autonomous robots or remote-controlled mobile robots designed for military applications, Attack, transport, inspection, search & rescue
• Autonomous Weapons – Militarized Robot designed to select and attack targets without intervention of a human operator
• LAR – Lethal Autonomous Robot

Android:

• Android – a robot with a human appearance
• All androids are Robots
• Android first used in 1837, referencing automated chess players
• Greek prefix andro-, meaning male
• Greek suffix -eides meaning form or shape
• Android operating system for tablets and smartphones

Droid – abbreviation of the word android
Droid is a robot that does not necessarily look like a human being
Droid was coined in Star Wars (1977)

Cyborg:

• Cyborg – “cybernetic organism”

mecha

• メカ
• Abbreviation of the word “Mechanical”
• Giant Robots or Machines … controlled by people
• Mobile Machinery / Vehicles (including aircraft)
• Humanoid or BioMorphic Appearance

Artificial Intelligence:

• A.I. exists outside of a single body or form
• Hive Mind