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"They do not think. They can be programmed to react to changes in variables only."
Going by that logic, humans don't think either ;). If you have something burning your hand, you can imagine a specific variable, called god knows what, but we'll call it MyHandIsBurning, and it can be true or false. If its true, then you will always yank your hand away from wherever it was when it became true. That's reacting to a change in a variable. Although it is infinitely more abstract and complex than just that.
A queen bee in a bee's nest maintains the entire order of the colony with 2 simple rules, 1 - find empty places to lay eggs in, 2 - stay near the center of the hive. For years it appeared that a complex thinking process must be occurring in the queens brain to keep track of the structure of the hive, when in actually it was a simple rule based behavior, incredibly robotic.
A robot doesn't think, but goes about its life reacting to things, with no forethought into what may occur afterwards. We think because we take into account how an action may affect us in the future. When driving toward a brick wall, you may be able to turn right or left, but you wouldn't want to react in a way that would lead to a situation where, after turning to miss the wall, you drive off a cliff.
If a robot goes up to that wall, and observes that on one side there's a cliff, and the other side a safe stretch of road. Providing it was programmed to detect cliffs and know they're bad, it will turn the right way. To anyone who didn't know exactly how this was working, it would appear to be thinking.
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Can a robot think for itself?
absolutly
What tasks does the Vacuum robot have and what human functions does it have?
Well it can clean te house as its a vacuum robot i think any ways.
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you sell your robot by going on robot trading i think its called and click sell but you have to have another robot
Can you get a robot in sims 2 without open for business?
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Can a robot think for itself?
absolutly
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I think the robot you are after is ASIMO.
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A ROBOT that can do anything..
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In the movies, a robot. He is actually being controlled by a human controller inside of him, I think.
How do you make a robot texting on a computer?
I think that you cannot
Is robot will friendly with humans?
think so.......yup
How do you do the robot on club penguin?
i dont think its true
What tasks does the Vacuum robot have and what human functions does it have?
Well it can clean te house as its a vacuum robot i think any ways.
What did the robot do?
I think this is too much of a general question to be answered.
Questions and answers to define robot?
The term 'Robot' is Latin, I think it means something like nonstop worker but the best way of defining a robot is an attempt of creating a simulation of intelligence's physically.
