[RyanMcGreal]

In that case, is my clothes dryer a robot? In addition to its timed dry setting, it also has a feedback setting in which it runs until the clothes inside have reached a (configurable) specified level of dryness, at which point it turns off.

[liotier]

At some point in the past, such automatic intelligence would have stunned the populace - but nowadays nothing short of sorting, folding and piling on the clothing shelves would let the punters cry "robot !"