Overview
Robot (ロボット) is mainly a machine that perform various behavioural functions similar to humans or animals, as well as machines and software that continue to operate autonomously to some extent.
Robots as software (chatbots, automated posting programmes, crawlers, etc.) are distinguished from robots as machines because they do not exist as entities, and are often referred to as bots>.
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