--- abstract: "Ever since the word ‘ROBOT’ first appeared in a science\r\nfiction in 1921, scientists and engineers have been trying\r\ndifferent ways to create it. Present technologies in\r\nmechanical and electrical engineering makes it possible\r\nto have robots in such places as industrial manufacturing\r\nand assembling lines. Although they are\r\nessentially robotic arms or similarly driven by electrical\r\npower and signal control, they could be treated the\r\nprimitive pioneers in application. Researches in the\r\nlaboratories go much further. Interdisciplines are\r\ndirecting the evolution of more advanced robots. Among these are artificial\r\nintelligence, computational neuroscience, mathematics and robotics. These disciplines\r\ncome closer as more complex problems emerge.\r\nFrom a robot’s point of view, three basic abilities are needed. They are thinking\r\nand memory, sensory perceptions, control and behaving. These are capabilities we\r\nhuman beings have to adapt ourselves to the environment. Although\r\nresearches on robots, especially on intelligent thinking, progress slowly, a revolution\r\nfor biological inspired robotics is spreading out in the laboratories all over the world." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - liyu.wang@wadh.oxon.org creators_name: - family: Wang given: L. honourific: Mr. lineage: '' date: 2006-05-28 date_type: submitted datestamp: 2009-11-14 11:30:26 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/67/18 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6718 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6718/1/Asimovs_Coming_Back.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:33 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: "Guang Li @ ZJU\r\nEloise Connelly @ IET\r\nRuss Tedrake @ MIT" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 23 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2009-11-14 11:30:26 subjects: - comp-sci-robot - comp-sci-neural-nets succeeds: ~ suggestions: "· A potentially good topic linking robots to humans throughout\r\n· But it covers lots of different aspects without drawing them together\r\n· The diagrams were of mixed quality\r\n" sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Asimov's Coming Back type: other userid: 9322 volume: ~