Q 01/05

The word 'robot' comes from the Czech word 'robota', which means what?

A) Artificial man

B) Forced labour

C) Machine

D) Helper

Answer · why

B) Forced labour

Robota means forced labour, the unpaid work serfs owed their lords. Karel Čapek, whose 1920 play made the word famous, credited his brother Josef with...

Q 02/05

What was the name of the first industrial robot, installed on a production line in 1961?

A) Unimate

B) ASIMO

C) PUMA

D) Shakey

Answer · why

A) Unimate

Unimate was the first industrial robot: Joseph Engelberger's company Unimation installed it in 1961 at a car plant in New Jersey, where it lifted hot ...

Q 03/05

Which branch of AI lets a robot interpret and respond to a spoken command?

A) Natural Language Processing

B) Computer Vision

C) Machine Learning

D) Knowledge Representation

Answer · why

A) Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing drove ELIZA, a 1966 MIT chatbot that only turned users' words back into questions; even so, its creator's secretary asked ...

Q 04/05

Which carmaker unveiled the walking humanoid robot ASIMO in 2000?

A) Toyota

B) Honda

C) Nissan

D) Hyundai

Answer · why

B) Honda

Honda began in 1986 with machines that were little more than a pair of walking legs, then added a head, torso and arms over about a dozen prototypes b...

Q 05/05

The first industrial robot went to work in 1961 at a New Jersey plant owned by which carmaker, then the world's largest?

A) Ford Motor Company

B) Chrysler

C) General Motors

D) Volkswagen

Answer · why

C) General Motors

General Motors put the arm to work at its Ewing Township plant near Trenton, lifting hot parts from a die-casting machine, a job that exposed human wo...