Comment Re:A Working Definiton? (Score 1) 318
I would further the "mobility" argument to be "outwardly" mobile or interactive. A washing machine or dryer has no parts on the exterior, all of the moving parts are inside of it - you close the door, and walk away, when you come back it's done. With other forms of robots (that are conventionally accepted as a "robot"), the device has some outward-facing mobility - it moves itself (Roomba), or it interacts with objects that are exterior to it (an arm on an assembly line, even if the arm is bolted to the floor). A car that you drive yourself is not a robot, where a self-driving car would be. A cell phone is not a robot as it does not move on its own (short of vibrating across your desktop when it's ringing...), no matter how much processing power it has.