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Contemporary uses
Criminal activity
Some vehicles are being used for illegal drug traffick. For example submarines have allready been created for this purpose.
Add in article
Graphics in the Robot article
Simplified robottypes.svg
- machine millers--> machine mills
- cloth washers-->clothes washers
- robot arm-->robot arms all should be plural
Wikkrockiana (talk) 19:39, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
This image appears to be whimsical and not illustrative in nature. It seems to not be useful for the article, and I submit that it should be removed. (Though, admittedly, it's pretty cute.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guyne (talk • contribs) 21:29, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- Agreed, it looks like a children's drawing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.209.163.158 (talk) 22:22, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
laparoscopic machine
The graphic of "A laparoscopic robotic surgery machine" is inappropriate for this article. The system depicted is the daVinci surgical assist system, which is always under the control of a surgeon, not a "surgical robot" as it is unfortunately called in the media. A "surgical robot" would function autonomously, without the concurrent control of a surgeon. To date, no such system has been approved for clinical use. 24 Aug 2012
Shoshone7110 (talk) 03:22, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
- If the definition of "robot" includes "remotely controlled" then it would be a robot. Problem is the article is so badly written its hard to say. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 13:04, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
robotic technology is the most advanced technology — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.249.253.29 (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
robot
robot is a machine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.212.246.35 (talk) 13:19, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Robots in society sources
The sources cited in the Robots in society section are all at least 6 years old and I believe no longer accurate because robots are a quickly developing technology. Also, they don't support the generalized claims made in this section. I suggest deleting this section if better sources are not available. Mllyjn (talk) 22:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- Here are two sources that contradict the view that view presented in this section: [1][2]
- At the very least the situation is more complex than is presented here. Mllyjn (talk) 23:30, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- Your right, its allot of old sources and OR/Weasel word combinations such as "experts and academics have increasingly explored" "Some experts and academics have questioned" and "A recent example of human replacement". Section should be deleted, its not encyclopedic and adds nothing to the article. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 02:16, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
- I have deleted the section. Mllyjn (talk) 05:19, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
- Your right, its allot of old sources and OR/Weasel word combinations such as "experts and academics have increasingly explored" "Some experts and academics have questioned" and "A recent example of human replacement". Section should be deleted, its not encyclopedic and adds nothing to the article. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 02:16, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
the robots is good :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.218.172.94 (talk) 11:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Lives of the Necromancers as a source for Category:Roboticists
Perhaps Category:Legendary roboticists would be more appropriate given most of the people listed by William Godwin are historical figures. I've encountered problems saying El Cid was a mythological swordsmen; however legends can be both historical and mythological figures; people are more commonly referred to as legends in their fields not myths in their field. Pope Sylvester II, Albertus Magnus, Virgil and several others are said to have had constructed brazen heads. CensoredScribe (talk) 00:17, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Photo credit
The article contains a photo with the credit appearing on the photo caption visible in the article. Should this be removed? I think all photos on Wikipedia list their credits in the photo description page rather than in the articles. Sofia Koutsouveli (talk) 14:44, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 18 April 2014
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Change "has" to "have" in "has been addressed in fiction". Ro(b)ottttttt (talk) 15:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
- Done thanks. Sorry the page has had to be protected because of persistent vandalism. Dmcq (talk) 16:05, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Word and its Author's origin
The word ROBOT is not a purely czech word. It comes from Russian RABOTA which means work. In Slovak, ROBIT' means to work, to make, to do. For the author's origin, he is Czechoslovak, at the time Czech republic and Slovak republic were together in one country.
Please check for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek
from there you can see:
Etymology of robot
"Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920. While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor.[13] In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he also explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, seeing it as too artificial, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested roboti (robots in English).
The word robot comes from the word robota, meaning literally "serf labor", and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in modern Czech (in Slovak, Russian, archaic Czech and other Slavic languages the cognate word means simply "work", comparable to German Arbeit, with the same meaning; in Polish, both shades of meaning are extant.)." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.41.228.80 (talk) 06:15, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, please: a one-line summary of the above, with link to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots#Origin_of_the_word deserves to be placed at the end of the opening paragraph to this article, don't you think? Fjados (talk) 10:22, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
the word 'robot' is not a czech word at all and neither russian, it is a root word 'rob' in the slovak language for 'work'. russians say rabota not robota like in slovak, robotnik is a slovak word for worker, in czech language is 'delnik' and russian is 'raboci'. it has nothing to do with the word 'slave'. slave in slovak is 'otrok' the word 'robotovat' in slovak means doing hard labor. another example between czech and slovak use of the word is, if you ask in slovak how much money you made, you would say 'kolko si zarobil'. in czech its 'kolik si videlal', in slovak when you as somebody what are you doing you say 'co robis', in czech it's 'co delas'. i speak and can read both languages and the root word 'rob' is slovak for work,labour and job. root word for work in czech is 'del' as you can see in the examples that i put up. so clearly karel capek used a slovak word and tried to make it a czech word which wikipedia should maybe take a look into just to get the facts right. thank you. ronald konig