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by chihuahua 899 days ago
A coffee maker is definitely a (simple) robot.

It's a machine that performs a task, just like a welding robot in a car factory or a Roomba.
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InitialLastName 899 days ago
I have a manual wire-crimping tool that is a machine that performs a specific task. Is that a robot?
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CyberDildonics 899 days ago
Is a single assembly instruction a robot?
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worik 899 days ago
Quit pedantic, useless, nitpicking over a casual reference to "robot"
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CyberDildonics 898 days ago
If people are going to start calling compilers robots, I want to know about it.
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