IB Digital Society Topic 3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Revision Notes (SL/HL)

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3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots in Myth and Fiction

People imagined artificial beings (bronze giants, clay servants) long before real machines, asking what happens when we create something that acts like us.
The word robot comes from fiction: coined in the 1920 Czech play R.U.R. for artificial workers, carrying a warning about creations that turn on their makers.
Fiction still shapes reactions to real robots: hopes of tireless helpers and fears of machines taking over both come from stories, and separating that inheritance from real capability is part of thinking clearly (expression).
Isaac Asimov invented fictional laws of robotics; people still reach for them in real AI-safety debates, though they were only a storytelling device.

Early Machines: Automata and Cybernetics

The first self-moving machines were automata: intricate clockwork figures that only replayed a fixed sequence, with no way to sense or respond to the world.
1. Example: an 18th-century mechanical writing boy could dip a pen and form letters, but ran a fixed cam-driven sequence with no sensing.
The leap came mid-20th century with cybernetics, the study of control and feedback in animals and machines, treating behaviour as information.
Key change: an automaton runs blind, replaying its sequence whatever happens around it. Add feedback and a machine can sense the world and correct itself. Robotics really begins with this move from fixed sequences to machines that respond to their surroundings.

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IB Digital Society 3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Notes

IB Digital Society 3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Notes

3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots in Myth and Fiction

Early Machines: Automata and Cybernetics

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IB Digital Society 3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Notes

Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

IB Digital Society 3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Notes

Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots in Myth and Fiction

Early Machines: Automata and Cybernetics

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3.7C Evolution of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots in Myth and Fiction

Early Machines: Automata and Cybernetics

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