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"Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot - Robot Girl Gang

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The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"

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a machine is a robot when it makes us sit with uncomfortable truths about ourselves

By this definition, both my washing machine and my dish washer are robots, and so is my bathroom scale

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