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Robot and Robotics: The Origin and Beyond

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The words “Robot” and “Robotics” originate from the theatrical play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (R.U.R.) by Karel Čapek and the short science fiction story “Runaround” by Isaak Asimov, respectively. While reading these works one realizes that beyond their historical value they also express many ideas that are pertinent to modern robotics and deserve the attention of the robotics community.

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This work has been partially supported by the Austrian COMET-K2 program of the Linz Center of Mechatronics (LCM).

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Ave., 1687, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Eftychios G. Christoforou

  2. Institute of Robotics, JKU Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Andreas Müller

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Correspondence to Eftychios G. Christoforou .

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  1. Robotics Laboratory, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia

    Aleksandar Rodić

  2. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Theodor Borangiu

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Christoforou, E.G., Müller, A. (2017). Robot and Robotics: The Origin and Beyond. In: Rodić, A., Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. RAAD 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_67

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