A robot is a reprogrammable, multifunctional machine designed to autonomously or semi-autonomously carry out complex actions by sensing its environment, processing data, and taking physical action. Unlike simple machines, robots use sensors (like cameras), processors, and actuators (motors) to perform tasks. ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics +5
This video explains the fundamental components and functions of a robot:
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Key aspects of robots include:
- Sense-Think-Act Cycle: Robots receive data from sensors (sense), use a controller to process this information (think), and perform actions using actuators (act).
- Autonomy: Robots can operate without direct human supervision, though many are human-supervised.
- Physicality: A robot interacts with the physical world, unlike software bots, which exist in digital environments.
- Types and Uses: They range from industrial robotic arms in factories to humanoid robots, cleaning robots, and autonomous drones.
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Common Uses:
- Manufacturing: Assembling products (e.g., car manufacturing).
- Exploration: Exploring unreachable areas like the ocean floor or other planets.
- Home/Service: Robotic vacuums, medical robots, and elderly care assistance.
- Rescue: Assisting in hazardous environments (search and rescue).
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Rebot (Command):
Note that in software engineering, rebot (with an ‘e’) is a command-line tool used in the Robot Framework to re-process report generation from previous test outputs, according to a Robot Framework forum post. Robot Framework
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A robot is a reprogrammable, multifunctional machine designed to autonomously or semi-autonomously carry out complex actions by sensing its environment, processing data, and taking physical action. Unlike simple machines, robots use sensors (like cameras), processors, and actuators (motors) to perform tasks. ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics +5
This video explains the fundamental components and functions of a robot:
51s
Key aspects of robots include:
- Sense-Think-Act Cycle: Robots receive data from sensors (sense), use a controller to process this information (think), and perform actions using actuators (act).
- Autonomy: Robots can operate without direct human supervision, though many are human-supervised.
- Physicality: A robot interacts with the physical world, unlike software bots, which exist in digital environments.
- Types and Uses: They range from industrial robotic arms in factories to humanoid robots, cleaning robots, and autonomous drones.
ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics +6
Common Uses:
- Manufacturing: Assembling products (e.g., car manufacturing).
- Exploration: Exploring unreachable areas like the ocean floor or other planets.
- Home/Service: Robotic vacuums, medical robots, and elderly care assistance.
- Rescue: Assisting in hazardous environments (search and rescue).
Britannica +4
Rebot (Command):
Note that in software engineering, rebot (with an ‘e’) is a command-line tool used in the Robot Framework to re-process report generation from previous test outputs, according to a Robot Framework forum post. Robot Framework
- What is a Robot? – Robots Guide09-Aug-2023 — But although robots vary in how they sense, compute, and act, they all operate in a similar way: Their sensors feed measurements t…
ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
- Robot – WikipediaThere is no consensus on which machines qualify as robots but there is general agreement among experts, and the public, that robot…
Wikipedia
- What is a Robot? – euRobotics01-Sept-2021 — What is a Robot? * Robot. A robot is a physical machine which carries out tasks in the physical world. … * Robotics. Robotics is…
euRobotics
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A robot is a machine, especially one programmable via a computer, capable of automatically carrying out a complex series of actions. A robot can be guided …Read more
robot, any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots.
The concept of artificial humans predates recorded history (see automaton), but the modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (“forced labor” or “serf”), used in Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920). The play’s robots were manufactured humans, heartlessly exploited by factory owners until they revolted and ultimately destroyed humanity. Whether they were biological, like the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), or mechanical was not specified, but the mechanical alternative inspired generations of inventors to build electrical humanoids.
The word robotics first appeared in Isaac Asimov’s science-fiction story Liar! (1941), in which a robot is mistakenly given the ability to read minds. Along with Asimov’s later robot stories, it set a new standard of plausibility about the likely difficulty of developing intelligent robots and the technical and social problems that might result. In his next work, Runaround (1942), Asimov introduced the famous Three Laws of Robotics:
- 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
In 1970, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori proposed that as human likeness increases in an object’s design, so does one’s affinity for the object, giving rise to the phenomenon called the “uncanny valley.” According to this theory, when the artificial likeness nears total accuracy, affinity drops dramatically and is replaced by a feeling of eeriness or uncanniness. Affinity then rises again when true human likeness—resembling a living person—is reached. This sudden decrease and increase caused by the feeling of uncanniness creates a “valley” in the level of affinity.
This article traces the development of robots and robotics. For further information on industrial applications, see the article automation.
(Read Toby Walsh’s Britannica essay on killer robots.)
Industrial robots
Though not humanoid in form, machines with flexible behaviour and a few humanlike physical attributes have been developed for industry. The first stationary industrial robot was the programmable Unimate, an electronically controlled hydraulic heavy-lifting arm that could repeat arbitrary sequences of motions. It was invented in 1954 by the American engineer George Devol and was developed by Unimation Inc., a company founded in 1956 by American engineer Joseph Engelberger. In 1959 a prototype of the Unimate was introduced in a General Motors Corporation die-casting factory in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1961 Condec Corp. (after purchasing Unimation the preceding year) delivered the world’s first production-line robot to the GM factory; it had the unsavoury task (for humans) of removing and stacking hot metal parts from a die-casting machine. Unimate arms continue to be developed and sold by licensees around the world, with the automobile industry remaining the largest buyer.
