From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/11/2018 2:54 AM, default wrote:   
   > On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:32:46 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Are self-driving cars also a kind of robots?   
   >   
   > I think that rather depends on your definition of robot.  A self   
   > driving car is limited to driving, navigation, communication and   
   > telling you what it needs in the way of maintenance.   
   > ...   
   > To my way of thinking you can't have a robot until you make it   
   > intelligent, autonomous, adaptable, and able to operate and adjust   
   > it's programming based on sensory inputs.  Anything less than that   
   > isn't a robot to my way of thinking but maybe it could be called a   
   > robotic machine?   
      
   Then maybe we need a new way of classifying robots, like taxonomy in   
   biology?   
      
   Class 1, dumb robots aka programmable machines;   
   Class 2 ....   
      
   Something like that?   
      
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