专题 02 机器人的崛起--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (2) Rise of the robots 机器人的崛起 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：科学与技术 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） The word “robot” was coined（创造） in 1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek. In “R.U.R.” (“Rossum’s Universal robots”) Capek imagined artificial, fully functional servants. For most of their history, however, robots have been dumb, inelegant mechanical devices sitting out of sight in factories. Things are starting to change, however. robots have benefited from rapid innovations in smartphones, which brought cheap cameras and sensors（传感器）, fast wireless communications and powerful, smaller computer chips（芯片）. More recent advances in machine learning have added software to make robots better informed about their surroundings and equipped them to make wiser decisions. robots are leaving carefully managed industrial settings for everyday life and, in the coming years, will increasingly work in supermarkets, clinics, social care and much more. They could not be coming at a