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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by jbob2000 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:25AM (#18873630)
Is an articulating cordless drill a robot? Because that’s all this thing is. It’s still an electronic, but it’s not a robot.

If this thing could learn and sense which movements produced the best effects, then it would be a robot. But it’s no different than a remote control car, and we don’t call those robots.

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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by tebs1200 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:44PM (#18878551)
No - An articulating cordless drill can't carry out a "complex series of actions" and it can't do anything automatically.

It stated in the article that the device's operation could be tailored to each individual's preferences.

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