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From: fredrik@edb.tih.no (Fredrik Wilhelmsen)
Subject: Re: Father of Robotics?
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Anders Ericsson (anderi@cadcam.kth.se) wrote:
: In article <CKv5qu.F2B@trivia.coginst.uwf.edu> Mark J. Mollere,
: mmollere@abalone.uwf.edu writes:
: >Am looking for the name of the Father of Robotics, if anyone knows,
: >please advise.  Thanx.
: >---
: I do believe, together with my research colleagues, that Joseph
: Engelberger is the Father of Robotics.
: Anders Ericsson

Isaac Asimov claimed to be the first to use the word
_robotics_.  (Look in the foreword of 'Encyclopedia of
Robotics' ).  Engelberg made the first (industrial) robot.
Carel Capek was the first to use the word _robot_ about an
artifical human.  Who is the father?  That is a matter of
opinion.

Fredrik Wilhelmsen
Trondheim College of Engineering
Norway

