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Robot Quiz: Rovers, Robot Arms and a Chess Hoax

By Rondilo
Robot Quiz: Rovers, Robot Arms and a Chess Hoax

Try 6 questions on real robots: where the word came from, Mars rovers, the first factory arm, Asimov's laws and a famous chess trick.

Questions
6
Length
About 4 min
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  1. Why was Unimate useful on GM's 1961 production line?
  2. What job did the first industrial robot do in a car factory?
  3. Put these NASA Mars rovers in order of landing, earliest first.
  4. What is the robot arm doing?
  5. In Asimov’s fiction, what if a human orders a robot to hurt someone?
  6. How did the Mechanical Turk really work?

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