The application of electronic, computerized control systems to mechanical devices designed to perform human functions. Formerly restricted to industry, but nowadays applied to artificial organs controlled by bionic (bioelectronic) devices, like automated insulin pumps and other prostheses.
    

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The BioPick : a fully automatic colony picking robot / BioRobotics ; sold by genetix Limited.

Yoomoo fat free frozen yogurt : presenting UK's first and only frozen yogurt robot : herd on down to Tesco metro, Covent Garden to get yoor scrumptious fro-yo / yoomoo.

Dyeing of colors : from diabolical experiments to the human genome project / by Field Ruwe.

Laboratory robotics : a guide to planning, programming, and applications / W. Jeffrey Hurst and James W. Mortimer.

Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / E.R. Truitt.

Robot : the future of flesh and machines / Rodney A. Brooks.

Howard Paul.

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Dyeing of colors : from diabolical experiments to the human genome project / by Field Ruwe.

Laboratory robotics : a guide to planning, programming, and applications / W. Jeffrey Hurst and James W. Mortimer.

Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / E.R. Truitt.

Robot : the future of flesh and machines / Rodney A. Brooks.

Howard Paul.