A robot is a special kind of machine. It is a machine that can follow instructions. ____ it is a machine, it seldom makes mistakes or gets tired. And it ____ complains, unless you tell it to!

Robots are around us. Some robots are used to ___ things. For example, robots can help make cars. Some robots are used to explore dangerous places. Some robots can help clean your house. Some robots can even _____ human languages. They can be used to help answer telephone calls. Some robots look like _______, but most robots do not. They just look like machines.

Long ago, people imagined ______. Over 2,000 years ago, Homer, a famous poet, imagined robots. His robots were made of gold, but they were not____. Nobody was able to make a real robot at that time. The ______ real robot was made in 1959.

In the future, we will have even more robots. They will do things that we can’t do, or that we don’t want to do, or that are too _____ for us. For example, robots will help us fight fires and illnesses. They will help make our life _______.