Androids vs Robots! What's the difference?
Androids vs Robots! What's the difference? Androids vs Robots! What's the difference? The word robot entered the global lexicon through Karel Čapek’s 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) , which imagined artificial workers created to serve humans. Ironically, Čapek’s “robots” were not metal machines but organic humanoids grown in vats – essentially artificial people. Over time, however, robot has come to mean any electromechanical machine that can perform tasks autonomously or via programming. Robots can take myriad forms: a factory arm welding car parts, a Roomba vacuuming your floor, a drone flying overhead, or even a lifelike humanoid. In short, all androids are robots, but not all robots are androids. By definition, an android is a specific type of robot – one designed to resemble a human being in form or appearance. The term comes from the Greek andr- for “man” and -oid for “like,” meaning “manlike.” ...