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michaelt • today at 12:18 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> They react to their environment. That's the classifier.

An industrial robot arm, out of the box, only has internal sensing (joint position, torque etc) and a start/stop button - can't sense the external environment at all.

But I've got a light on my porch that turns on when it gets dark.

By the 'react to the environment' definition the former is not a robot, and the latter is.