Presentation on Robotics

design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots

and computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. These technologies deal with automated machines that can take the place of humans, in hazardous or manufacturing processes, or simply just resemble humans. Many of today's robots are inspired by nature contributing to the field of bio-inspired robotics.

when the Industrial Revolution allowed the use of more complex

mechanics and the subsequent introduction of electricity made it possible to power machines with small compact motors. After the 1920s the modern formulation of a humanoid machine was developed to the stage where it was possible to envisage human sized robots with the capacity for near human thoughts and movements, first envisaged millennia before. The first uses of modern robots were in factories as industrial robots – simple fixed machines capable of manufacturing tasks which allowed production without the need for human assistance. Digitally controlled industrial robots and robots making use of artificial intelligence have been built since the 1960s.

applications for them, and conduct research to expand the potential

of robotics. Robots have become a popular educational tool in some middle and high schools, as well as in numerous youth summer camps, raising interest in programming, artificial intelligence and robotics among students.
First-year computer science courses
at several
universities now include
programming
of a robot in addition
to traditional software
engineering-based
coursework.

to research, design, and build new robots that serve various

practical purposes, whether domestically, commercially, or militarily.
Many robots do jobs that
are hazardous to people
suchas defusing bombs,
exploring shipwrecks, and mines.

of robotics. Indeed, there is
a widely-held but contentious viewpoint

that space application represents a natural and inevitable
arena for the advancement of robotics by
Imposing the requirement for high
autonomy in space robotic
systems.

as that for biological organisms – survival in a hostile

and unrelenting
environment.

put to rest a contentious, and often emotive, argument that

plagues the political arena of space exploration. Every few years , the eternally-resurgent question of whether humans or robots should be adopted for space exploration is dusted off for regurgitation. This debate is misplaced – there is a well-defined distribution of tasks across the human and the machine, and this distribution is of an evolutionary nature. There are tasks that are suited to robotics, and, likewise, there are tasks suited to humans. Robotics serves to ease the burden of more manual and repetitive tasks from the human astronaut allowing his/her deployment to tasks requiring the beyond the state-of-the-art machine intelligence. There is little doubt that human spaceflight provides a degree of flexibility in space activities that is unattainable in robotic missions.

so the role of humans
will shift exclusively to
tasks

of greater comple-
xity . However, human
exploration missions will always require prior reconnaissance by robotic missions – robots do not suffer the fragility of the human body and can reach further into outer space than human beings.