FWIW I had a professor that defined "robotics" in the same way (we even had a quite philosophical debate on whether automatic doors are robots). I ended up liking Norvig and Russell's definition better by appending the word "autonomously".
Another interesting word that is quite out fashion nowadays is "cybernetics": "Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action." [1]
Having studied Control Engineering in college, to me, all these things are feedback control loops. [2]
Another interesting word that is quite out fashion nowadays is "cybernetics": "Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action." [1]
Having studied Control Engineering in college, to me, all these things are feedback control loops. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback