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The concept of or the desire for robot-like creatures t________s far back, almost to the birth of human imagination.
traces
The Laws set the p_______s for robotic behavior. At
all cost, human life should be protected.
priorities
From the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz and R2D2 in Star Wars to the more recent Transformers, robots have i ____________d many little future scientists.
inspire
people have long dreamed of inanimate creatures that can do their m________ or difficult work.
mo
monotonous
The term “robot,” referring to such artificial creatures, wasfirst _____ed in Czech writer Karel Capek’s play,
coin
the European Parliament approved a r________calling for the creation of laws on robotics, based on Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.
resolution
Those kids have eventually grown up to lead the f_______ of robot technology, changing the shape of the future world.
frontiers
In this play, robots are specifically made to do the hard _____ so that human can live lives of leisure and comfort.
labor
Products are m________d infinitely faster and cheaper than before, thanks to them.
manufacture
The 17th century is known to have been the golden age of “clockwork a_________
automatons
the earliest known industrial robot was completed, opening the first _______of robotics
phase
The Monster turns out to have superb intelligence and
eventually turns against its creator, with d_________ results.
dreadful
Modern industrial robots have significantly c___________d to comfort and safety in work environments.
contribute
They(industrial robots) are more like advanced clockworks, although far more __________operated.
precisely
Industrial robots, though having made fast p________ since then, are not yet thinking machines which can act independently.
progress