"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

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They fall short of the technical definition Tina used. Robots continued to be explored through science fiction for decades before the first thing called a robot became a product you could buy. Outside of sci fi, “robot” used to just mean robotic arms used in assembly lines.

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