Agricultural Robotics: A Promising Challenge

The word robot originates in the twentieth century with the fictional writer Karel Capek, 1 but the idea of a mechanism that can perform tasks automatically is much older, such as an automatic toy dog of Egyptians over 4000 years old, 2 or gold mythological servants who aided the Greek God Hephesto (Vulcan for the Romans) in his works of blacksmith by the years 2000 BC 3 and Da Vinci that designed and built a horse and a "robotic" knight in 1500 AD.