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I'm more annoyed at how certain popular kind of robots get removed from the class "robots" and given their own names. For example, people think of autonomous cars as their own thing even though all the technology behind autonomous driving came from robotics. Same for aerial robots -> "drones", etc.

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"Washing machines", "toasters", "toilets", etc.

The common thread is that robots look like people or animals. No one would call a CNC machine a 'robotic machinist' but an industrial robotic arm is still a robot because it is visually similar to a human arm.

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