>> How many mathematical, biological, and physical discoveries would never have been made, if it weren’t for robotics (invented by someone with no higher education) and cheap compute (provided by the business sector)?
Who does the article mean, by "robotics (invented by someone with no higher education)"? Wikipedia tells me that [in] 1948, Norbert Wiener formulated the principles of cybernetics, the basis of practical robotics [1], but Wiener had a PhD from Harvard [2] and certainly much education, at all levels.
The wikipedia article on robotics has a number of other names of people who contributed in various ways to robotics from ancient to modern times, but I'm not sure who fits the article's description. Did Heron of Alexandria have a "higher education", sensu stricto?
It's really unclear who they could mean. A few of the people in the History of Robotics Wikipedia article[0] didn't have PhDs[1], but seemingly all of them had some higher education. Maybe they are referring to someone who wrote fiction about the idea of robots before robotics really existed: Karel Čapek (who came up with the word "robot") had a PhD though[2]. Perhaps it refers to L. Frank Baum, as he appears to have had no higher education[3].
Who does the article mean, by "robotics (invented by someone with no higher education)"? Wikipedia tells me that [in] 1948, Norbert Wiener formulated the principles of cybernetics, the basis of practical robotics [1], but Wiener had a PhD from Harvard [2] and certainly much education, at all levels.
The wikipedia article on robotics has a number of other names of people who contributed in various ways to robotics from ancient to modern times, but I'm not sure who fits the article's description. Did Heron of Alexandria have a "higher education", sensu stricto?
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener