Read the text quickly and choose the correct answers to the questions below.

1Are the paragraphs about
alots of topics?

bone topic?

2 Which is the best title?

aImaginary robots in film and fiction bRobots: the fantasy and the facts

We can thank the world of literature for the words robot and robotics. The word robot was first used by the Czech playwright Karel Capek in his 1921 play, RUR(Rossum's Universal Robots).

(1)_________ . Asimov used it in a short story in

1941.

Robots often star in films too, for example dangerous machines like Terminator or cute ones

like R2D2 in Star Wars. (2)________ Industrial

robots don't have personalities and they don't think like people. Most real robots are designed to

save people from dangerous jobs (3)________

or boring, routine work (4)________ .

A simple robot is made of:

.that can

A mechanical device (5).

give information to

react to its environment.
' Sensors that (6)_______

the device.

Systems or computer programs that

(7) ______ give the device instructions.