"The Chinese translation of 'robot' is literally 'mechanical person," says Pan. "This inaccuracy is often misleading. The earliest industrial applications were simply mechanical arms that bore no resemblance to people."
「robot 的中文譯成機器人，其實很不精確，也常誤導，因為最早應用在工業界的只是一隻機械手臂，根本沒有人的樣子。」