[sndean]

> washing machine, oven, and thermostat? ... No one would consider these "robots".

> clothes cleaning robot => washing machine; etc.

So do you think a washing machine is a robot?

[beambot]

Nope. It already works.

[sndean]

But that would mean that washing machines were at one time considered robots, but now they aren't ... Ohh, okay, I like that definition too.