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"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/
5•birdculture•43m ago

Comments

bartvk•24m ago
I strongly advise the podcast "Robot Or Not". The hosts have very strong opinions on what exactly constitutes a robot, and readers write in with edge cases. It's been going on for a long time, so nowadays they also categorize other things.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-or-not/id9979302...

https://open.spotify.com/show/4M2AELzmQy77FxaYZMl6e9

https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/robot-or-not/b911efc0-e2f6-0...

nizmow•5m ago
And if you get a taste for opinionated Siracusa, look up the toaster ovens saga.
walrus01•18m ago
The Crushinator might disagree if the premise is that an appliance/machine shaped thing can't be a robot.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=futurama+...

michaelt•11m ago
I once had a robotics professor who argued any definition of 'robot' broad enough to include roombas and self-driving cars and industrial robot arms (even if made narrow enough to exclude remote-control toy cars, cars with cruise control, CNC mills and washing machines) would inevitably define cruise missiles as robots. Meaning the world had 'killer robots' before we had digital computers.

Instead, he argued the definition of a robot is "I know it when I see it"

TomGarden•9m ago
"I know it when I see it" has to be up there in terms of useless thought-terminating clichés together with "no smoke without fire" and "if he wanted to he would"

Our tracking script is smaller than a favicon. How heavy is yours?

https://foresite.dev/blog/analytics-script-page-speed
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Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage

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2•utiiiD•42m ago•0 comments

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/
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