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I am an automation engineer with a large electronics company here
in the USA.  I also am a mechanical music enthusiast; go figure!
Certainly mechanical music instruments are considered robots.
Asimov did not coin the term, he listed a set of rules for androids,
specifically robots designed to look and interact as humans.

The word 'robot' was coined by the Czech playwright Karel Capek
(pronounced "chop'ek") from the Czech word for forced labor or serf.
It is derived from the Russian language word for work, Rabotayet.
A robot is any device capable of performing repetitive motions or
tasks.  So if you are a mechanical device that can weld doors on cars,
or play Rachmaninoff, or a person that, say, makes tacos all day long
at a restaurant, you are a robot.

When I was seven my Grandma took me to House on the Rock museum near
Dodgeville, WI, and I have been obsessed ever since.  Two months ago,
I bought my first player piano, and my John Smith Universal 26 busker
organ is about half done.  Would like to meet with MMDers in Fort
Worth, Texas, area.

Ted Konetski