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ROBOTICS

Technique that is used in the design and construction of robots and devices that perform operations or works, usually in industrial facilities and in replacement of human labor.

Interesting facts about robots:

• Robotics expert Henrik Christensen predicts that humans will start having sex with robots in four years.

• Leonardo da Vinci drew the plans for an armored humanoid machine in 1495.

• In the 5th century BC C. Arquitas, a friend of Plato, built a mechanical bird powered by a jet of steam or compressed air. It could be said that it was the first robot in history.

• The first known case of a homicidal robot occurred in 1981, when a robotic arm crushed a Japanese worker at the Kawasaki factory.

• Rex, who is now better known as Frank (in honor of Frankenstein), is the first bionic man ever created with a full body. Scientists had long since managed to create artificial organs separately, but never before had there been an artificial body that was fully functional. This human clone cost a million dollars in total and was armed in just three months with organs that were donated by 17 different developers.