Robotics

Robotics

1. Types of robot

   • cartesian, SCARA, cylindrical, delta, polar and vertically articulated. However, there are several additional types of robot configurations. Each of these types offers a different joint configuration.

2. What is robotics?

   • Robotics is an interdisciplinary sector of science and engineering dedicated to the design, construction and use of mechanical robots.

3. Where does the word robot come from?

   • The term comes from a play called “RUR” that I read as an 8th graders and still remember quite vividly to this day. The play was written in 1920 by Czech playwright Karel Capek (1880–1838), with the title referring to “Rossum’s Universal Robots”—hence the introduction of this word into the English language, due in part to how popular this play became in both Europe and the US.

4. What is a robot?

5. Impact of robotics

   • Robotic labor machines can produce vastly higher quantities than humans, creating higher supplies of finished goods. The robots present manufacturers with a savings in costs as well

6. Robotics classification

   • There are six main types of industrial robots: cartesian, SCARA, cylindrical, delta, polar and vertically articulated. However, there are several additional types of robot configurations.

7. The architecture of a robot

   • robots have mostly been used to choose and position materials, such as bricks. Using multiple robots, architects can control movement, and coordination

8. Sensors, controllers, and actuators

   • Abstract This thesis presents methods for implementing robust hexpod locomotion on an autonomous robot with many sensors and actuators. The controller is based on the Subsumption Architecture and is fully distributed over approximately 1500 simple, concurrent processes. The robot, Hannibal, weighs approximately 6 pounds and is equipped with over 100 physical sensors, 19 degrees of freedom, and 8 on board computers