A robot an automatic device that performs functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human.
Common qualities of robots are as follows:
- is not 'natural' i.e. artificially created
- can sense its environment, and manipulate or interact with things in it
- has some degree of intelligence or ability to make choices based on the environment, often using automatic control or a preprogrammed sequence
- is programmable
- moves with one or more axes of rotation or translation
- makes dexterous coordinated movements
- appears to have intent or agency
