Engineers whose defining technological contribution is a robot or robotic system: mechanical manipulators, autonomous or semi-autonomous machines, and the control systems that let a machine sense and act on its environment with reduced human direction. Belongs here: engineers credited with a specific robotic device or the control method that makes it autonomous. Does not belong here: the software algorithms behind a robot control system considered on their own, grouped under Software Engineering, or a conventional machine that requires continuous human operation and has no autonomous or semi-autonomous control element.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
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The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Robot
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The term robot came from the Czech language in 1923. The word was coined by Czech author Karel Capek, first used in his play R.U.R. (translated as Rossum's Universal Robots).
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