• 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

Robots:

autonomous weapons

Guardians (movie) – Intro Robot