~5 Interesting Facts~
~The number of robots in use is more than a million. Over half of these robots are working in Japan.
~The smallest robot is called a nanobot. It is 10 nanometres in size or less than one thousandth of a millimetre.
~The word robot comes from the Czech "robota", which means work hard or forced labour. It was first used in Karel Capek's 1920 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots.)
~The first ever humanoid was named Elektro. It was built by Westinghouse, the seven foot tall human like machine spoke more than 700 words to simulate conversation.
~There are currently 4,000 robots serving in the US Military, including Talon bots that search for roadside bombs in Iraq and PackBots that looked around for Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan.
~The smallest robot is called a nanobot. It is 10 nanometres in size or less than one thousandth of a millimetre.
~The word robot comes from the Czech "robota", which means work hard or forced labour. It was first used in Karel Capek's 1920 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots.)
~The first ever humanoid was named Elektro. It was built by Westinghouse, the seven foot tall human like machine spoke more than 700 words to simulate conversation.
~There are currently 4,000 robots serving in the US Military, including Talon bots that search for roadside bombs in Iraq and PackBots that looked around for Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan.