selsyn


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a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator

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Let us take, for instance, the previously mentioned selsyn. Google n-grams (cf.
Buszel, Kombajner, and rels: Fisiak's 1961 Corpus of English borrowings in polish fifty five years later
Highly technical entries cover terms from computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy, along with jargon like end effector (essentially the robot's hand), mechatronics (mechanics and electronics), selsyn (direction indicator), teach box (memorizes motions for a robot to duplicate), telechir (remotely controlled robot), and uncanny valley theory (that humans are more comfortable with robots that resemble humans--but only up to a point).
The McGraw-Hill Illustrated Encyclopedia of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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