Basic Terminology
What is Antropomorphic?
What is "Human Like"?
A gripper, usually with fingers, used to grasp something for the robot.
What is a claw?
"End Effector"?
A device that detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or otherwise responds to it.
What is a sensor?
A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.
What is a robot?
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
What is ethics?
Series of Instructions initiates the movement of the robot
What is Program?
A requirement for the controller to do work.
What is programming?
A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts
What is a motor?
George Devol
Who patented the first industrial robot.
Inclined Plane Screw Pulley Wheel and Axle Wedge Lever
What are the simple machines?
A motor or valve that converts power into robot movement.
What is Actuator?
Six Degrees of Freedom
What is X,Y,Z and Yaw, Pitch and Roll?
A rod or spindle (either fixed or rotating) passing through the center of a wheel or group of wheels.
What is an axle?
A program used to create scale drawings of a robot/project
What is CAD?
Non-Servo and Servo Robots
Method of creating instruction in which the operator moves the robot through the various positions involved in an operation.
What is Teach Pendant Programming?
Also known as the "brains" of the robot.
What is the controller?
A circular wheel with teeth.
What is a gear?
Strong in mathematics and science Highly analytical and detail oriented Imaginative and creative Good communication skills Enjoy working in teams Enjoy building or improving the way things work
What are characteristics to being an engineer?
Define the Problem. Do Background Research. Specify Requirements. Brainstorm Solutions. Choose the Best Solution. Do Development Work. Build a Prototype. Test and Redesign
What are the steps of the Engineering Design Process?
Range of motion and ability to move robotic arm
What is Degrees of Freedom?
Item used to connect and send signals from the robot to the sensor (not bluetooth).
What is a connector cable to Teach Pendant?
Spins along an axel.
What is a wheel?
Job that deals with designing and building robotic systems and robotics while programming the robots to accomplish the tasks needed.
What is a robotics engineer?
Entry-level jobs in the field, typically in working with machines or robots or related engineering specialties.
What is an Engineering Technologist?