Automation vs. Autonomy
What is the field concerned with designing, building, and operating robots called?
Robotics
What term describes a machine performing preset tasks without independent decision-making?
Automation
What term describes a machine's ability to make its own decisions in changing conditions?
Autonomy
Who formulated the Three Laws of Robotics?
Isaac Asimov
Name the mobility type that moves through flight?
Aerial
Which play/author first coined the word "robot" (1921)?
R.U.R. (Karel Čapek)
Name the mobility type with no locomotion — a bolted-down base.
Fixed manipulator
Name the mobility type that moves using articulated limbs.
Legged
What do we call robots designed to safely work alongside humans?
Cobots
What category of robots perform tasks like cleaning, delivery, or assistance for people?
Service robots
Name the robot geometry with a rectangular, box-shaped workspace.
Cartesian
Name the robot geometry that moves along a cylindrical workspace.
Cylindrical
Name the robot geometry with all-rotary joints, like a human arm.
Articulated
Expand the acronym SCARA.
Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm
What general term describes any robot capable of moving through its environment?
Mobile robot
Which Law states a robot must obey human orders?
Second Law
Which Law states a robot must protect its own existence?
Third Law
SCARA robots are best suited for which kind of task?
Assembly/pick-and-place
What is a robot that autonomously moves goods in a warehouse called (abbreviation)?
AMR
Which Law states a robot may not injure a human being?
First Law
Cobots require safety caging like traditional industrial robots.
False
Which industry pioneered large-scale industrial robot adoption?
Automotive industry
What do we call the fixed arrangement of links and joints that defines a robot's reachable space?
Geometry/configuration
Spot or Atlas (Boston Dynamics)
Drone/quadrotor
What subscription-based robot deployment model is known by the acronym RaaS?
Robots-as-a-Service