Read the following text and fill in the gaps with only one word from the box.

There are 7 words you dont need.

ability at be being despite difficulty do first had however in instead invents just make mean meaning over own owners quite science self sense was what which Seventy years ago no one --1-- ever heard the word robot. It was --2-- used by a Czechoslovakian writer, Karel Capek in the 1920s. He wrote a play about a scientist who --3-- machines --4-- he calls robots, from the Czech word, robota, --5-- slave-like work. He gave them this name because they were built to --6-- very boring work. --7-- the end of the play, the robots kill their human --8-- and take --9-- the world. There are many robots in existence now, but they are --10-- different from the robots of --11-- fiction films and books. --12-- of being frightening, super-intelligent metal people, real robots are --13-machines controlled by a computer to work --14-- a set way. They are generally deaf, even blind, have no --15-- of taste, smell or touch, have --16-- in moving around, and have no intelligence of their --17--. However, advances in microchip technology --18-- that robots are beginning to --19-- made with a TV camera eye or microphone ear, which give them very limited --20--ability to see or hear.
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