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The first robot was built to do homework. Which explains why it immediately refused.

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The first robot was not built for homework. Early automata existed in antiquity, the word robot was introduced in Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R., and the first industrial robot, Unimate, began work in 1961.

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