Robots With AI Also Need Physical Intelligence

Robots with AI (artificial intelligence) are emerging as developers combine large language models (LLMS) with autonomous devices. Find out why they’re discovering that it takes far more than linguistic skills to replicate basic human abilities.

Like most my generation, I think the first robot of which I became aware was the one on the TV program Lost in Space, whose name was simply Robot, although fans of the show tell me he was officially Robot Model B-9. Another famous fictional robot came before him.

That was Robby the Robot in the 1950s science fiction classic Forbidden Planet. That was before my time and I didn’t get to see that film until my college years.

People seem to have speculated about mechanical beings, automatons, androids and robots since the dawn of civilization. The word “robot” emerged with the science fiction boom in the 1920s.

The Term Robot Emerged From Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov drew even more public attention to the concept in 1950 with his book I, Robot. Star Trek’s Commander Data, and of course C-3PO and R2D2 made fictional robots more friendly and…