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<title>Robot Fascination</title>
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<h1>Robot Fascination</h1>
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<p><small>(<a href="../">Artificial Intelligence</a>)</small></p>
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<address class="h-card">
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by
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<a rel="author" class="u-url" href="http://changelog.ca/"><span class="p-given-name">Charles</span> <span class="p-additional-name">Iliya</span> <span class="p-family-name">Krempeaux</span></a>
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</address>
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</section>
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<dl>
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<dt>robot (noun):</dt>
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<dd>an intelligent machine</dd>
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<dt>android (noun):</dt>
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<dd>a robot that looks like and acts like a human</dd>
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</section>
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Humans have long had a fascination with <em>robots</em> — and especially <em>robots</em> that look similar to humans.
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Both trying (and even succeeding) to build real <em>robots</em>, and in our fiction (including our <abbr title="science-fiction">sci-fi</abbr>) imagining a world where (advanced) robots exist, and even are ubiquitous.
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In fact, young children (especially young boys) often gain an obsession with <em>robots</em> and <em>androids</em> (after being exposed to them, in the form of cartoons, animations, videos, and toys).
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4 of my son's favorite toys are Tobot (Korean transformer) toys — that we got him while we were visiting Korea.
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The are android robots that transform back-and-forth between their android humoid robot mode and some type of vehicle.
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