Difference between an android and a robot
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I ran across a couple of posts on CP today that requested new sections on robots and androids. Now, here's my question. What is the difference between an android and a robot?
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modified on Saturday, January 2, 2010 9:25 AM
Strictly speaking, an android is a subset of robotic beings. Specifically, it is designed to look humanoid. George Lucas suborned the term in Star Wars to refer to anything that we would view as a mobile robot, be it humanoid like or not.
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A robot is a machine that may exhibit human-like behavior or some elements of the human anatomy, but does not necessarily resemble a human being. It is obviously a mechanism. For example, many industrial robots resemble an arm, with a 'wrist' and even a 'hand'. An android is a robot that has a fairly complete set of elements of human appearance: walks upright on two legs, two arms/hands, head with face, and so on.
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Fold With Us![^]I thought an android was one of those fleshy things that popped outa yer butt every once in a wh... oh, wait...
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Strictly speaking, an android is a subset of robotic beings. Specifically, it is designed to look humanoid. George Lucas suborned the term in Star Wars to refer to anything that we would view as a mobile robot, be it humanoid like or not.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
George Lucas suborned the term in Star Wars
But we all know Lucas is a putz...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
A robot is a machine that may exhibit human-like behavior or some elements of the human anatomy, but does not necessarily resemble a human being. It is obviously a mechanism. For example, many industrial robots resemble an arm, with a 'wrist' and even a 'hand'. An android is a robot that has a fairly complete set of elements of human appearance: walks upright on two legs, two arms/hands, head with face, and so on.
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Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
A robot is a machine [...] does not necessarily resemble a human being.
That's why we Saffers get away with calling traffic lights robots. E.g. "..then turn left at the second robot."
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
A robot is a machine [...] does not necessarily resemble a human being.
That's why we Saffers get away with calling traffic lights robots. E.g. "..then turn left at the second robot."
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I ran across a couple of posts on CP today that requested new sections on robots and androids. Now, here's my question. What is the difference between an android and a robot?
There are only 10 types of people in this world — those who understand binary, and those who don't.
modified on Saturday, January 2, 2010 9:25 AM
public class Android : Robot {
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A robot is a machine that may exhibit human-like behavior or some elements of the human anatomy, but does not necessarily resemble a human being. It is obviously a mechanism. For example, many industrial robots resemble an arm, with a 'wrist' and even a 'hand'. An android is a robot that has a fairly complete set of elements of human appearance: walks upright on two legs, two arms/hands, head with face, and so on.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
A robot is a machine that may exhibit human-like behavior or some elements of the human anatomy, but does not necessarily resemble a human being. It is obviously a mechanism. For example, many industrial robots resemble an arm, with a 'wrist' and even a 'hand'. An android is a robot that has a fairly complete set of elements of human appearance: walks upright on two legs, two arms/hands, head with face, and so on.
Wouldn't an Android be a child of the "Robot" class?
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
A robot is a machine that may exhibit human-like behavior or some elements of the human anatomy, but does not necessarily resemble a human being. It is obviously a mechanism. For example, many industrial robots resemble an arm, with a 'wrist' and even a 'hand'. An android is a robot that has a fairly complete set of elements of human appearance: walks upright on two legs, two arms/hands, head with face, and so on.
Wouldn't an Android be a child of the "Robot" class?
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class Android : public Robot
{
void ImplementThreeLaws();
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I thought an android was one of those fleshy things that popped outa yer butt every once in a wh... oh, wait...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001If a pun thread gets started here, I ain't particpatin'...
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public class Android : Robot {
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Ah. The C# version of my post above.
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If a pun thread gets started here, I ain't particpatin'...
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Fold With Us![^]Coward... :)
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
George Lucas suborned the term in Star Wars
But we all know Lucas is a putz...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001+5 for total accuracy.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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public class Android : Robot {
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}:jig:
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public class Android : Robot {
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}:jig:
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Shouldn't it be:
public class Android : Robot, IHumanoid
{
}"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Coward... :)
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Careful, you might incite a case of android rage.
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Your logic is strange to me; you have three new concepts, and none of the ones I had, so I don't see how that "should follow". :confused:
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Hmm.... I think something like this is more the thing:
public class Cyborg
{
public Cyborg(IHumanElements human_elements,IRobotElements robot_elements)
{
_Human = human_elements;
_Robot = robot_elements;
};private IHumanElements \_Human; private IRobotElements \_Robot;}
In the cyborg's case, I think it's more of a 'has-a' relationship than an 'is-a' relationship.
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Strictly speaking, an android is a subset of robotic beings. Specifically, it is designed to look humanoid. George Lucas suborned the term in Star Wars to refer to anything that we would view as a mobile robot, be it humanoid like or not.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
To clarify: C3PO is an andriod (and a robot) R2D2 is just a robot. George Lucas is a human (who doesn't know his a*** from his elbow).
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Shouldn't it be:
public class Android : Robot, IHumanoid
{
}"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
There's lots of interfaces one can attribute to Android, to name a few:
IAnimatable, IAsyncResult, IDictionary<Klingon>, IDropTarget, IExpando, IHttpHandler, IIntellisenseBuilder, ILease, IProcessHost, IResourceProvider, ...More advanced models might even addIGoogle, IReflect:)Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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