Robot Types
This type of robot has transformed manufacturing by increasing efficiency, safety, and accuracy.
What is an industrial robot?
This term describes networks of devices, like RFID tags or sensors added to components, that collect and share data, often used by businesses to track assets or improve efficiency.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
To achieve this, Robots use digital cameras, often two for depth perception.
What is vision?
The demand for robots in this sector has been a major driving force in robotics since the 1960s.
What is manufacturing/industry?
Attributing human characteristics, like emotions or intentions, to non-human entities such as robots.
What is anthropomorphism?
Robots developed to assist humans with dull, dirty, or dangerous jobs, either domestically or professionally.
What are service robots?
A vehicle capable of operating without human intervention.
What is an autonomous vehicle (AV)?
Technologies like lidar, sonar, and radar help robots perceive their environment by measuring the time it takes for waves (light, sound, radio) to bounce off objects.
What are ranging sensors ?
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced these fundamental rules for robot behavior in 1941.
What are the Three Laws of Robotics?
The eerie, unsettling feeling people experience when interacting with highly lifelike humanoid robots, a concept introduced by Masahiro Mori.
What is the uncanny valley?
Unlike service robots used for tasks, these robots are designed primarily to interact and communicate with humans socially.
What are social robots?
According to the SAE, levels 0 to 3 of vehicle autonomy involve low levels designed for this purpose.
What is augmenting or assisting the driver?
This defines how independently a robot can operate without a human controller.
What is the level of autonomy?
This emerging field aims to design robots with human-like intelligence, capable of perception, planning, and learning in uncertain real-world environments.
What is cognitive robotics?
A major concern regarding robots and autonomous systems, involving potential misuse of training data or hacking for malicious purposes.
What are privacy and security risks?
Voice-controlled helpers like Google Home or Amazon Echo, typically found in smart speakers or phones.
What are virtual personal assistants?
A flying robot, also known as a UAV, that can be remote-controlled or autonomous.
What is a drone?
This system in a robot processes data from sensors and sends commands to actuators and end effectors for decision-making.
What is the computerized control system?
Charles Rosen's team at Stanford developed this early robot in 1958 that could wheel around, observe scenes with its 'eyes', and navigate unfamiliar surroundings.
What is Shakey?
The outcome of this project was guidelines on the regulation of robotics in the EU
What is Robolaw ?
Robots specifically designed to work alongside humans, augmenting their capabilities, often in workplace environments.
What are cobots?
This SAE level represents full vehicle automation without restrictions, a level yet to be achieved.
What is Level 5 automation?
A mechanical or electromechanical peripheral device attached to a robot's arm, used to grip objects, attach tools, or hold sensors.
What is an end effector?
The word 'robot' was first introduced to society in a science fiction play by this Czech writer in 1921.
Who is Karel Capek?
This major concern occurs when robots replace jobs.
What is the displacement of humans ?