Robotics
Coding Vocabulary
Types of Robots
Technology
Wild Card
100

A machine that is able to think, sense, and act on its own

What is a robot?

100

Error in a program

What is a bug?

100

a white orb wrapped in polycarbonate plastic, capable of rolling around, changing colors, running programs, and being controlled by a smartphone or tablet

What are Spheros?

100

A palm-sized, button-operated pointing device that can be used to move, select, activate, and change items on a computer screen

What is a mouse?

100
One of the founders of Microsoft?

Who is Bill Gates?

200

The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application.

What is robotics?

200

Finding a fixing errors in a program

What is debugging?

200

tiny toy robot that can identify lines, colors, and codes on both digital surfaces, such as an iPad, and physical surfaces, such as paper

What is an ozobot?

200

device that allows a user to type letters and numbers

What is a keyboard?

200

One of the founders of Apple?

Who is Steve Jobs?

300

what is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system

What is input?

300

a list of steps that you can follow to complete a task

What is an algorithm?

300

You do this before you use an ozobot (using a black circle)

What is calibrate?

300

provides a computer with the algorithm needed to perform a task

What is a program?

300
length x width x height

What is volume?

400

produce, deliver, or supply (data) using a computer or other device

What is output?

400

when a section of code repeats

What is a loop?

400

Robotic aircraft, used extensively by the military.

What is a drone?

400

software that supports a computer's basic functions

What is an operating system?

400

a machine allowing the creation of a physical object from a three-dimensional digital model, typically by laying down many thin layers of a material in succession

What is a 3D printer?

500

control of a machine or apparatus from a distance by means of signals transmitted from a radio or electronic device

What is a remote control?

500

a statement that only runs under certain conditions

What is a conditional?

500

a small robotic space probe that can move about the surface of a planet or moon

What is a rover?
500

Receiving information from another person's computer over a network and saving it on your own hard drive

What is a download?

500

the thermoplastic feedstock for fused deposition modeling 3D printers

What is 3D printing filament?

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