Saturday, June 26, 2010

What is a Robot?

“A re-programmable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.”

A robot essential characteristics
·        Mobility: It possesses some form of mobility.
·        Programmability: implying computational or symbol- manipulative capabilities that a designer can combine as desired (a robot is a computer). It can be programmed to accomplish a large variety of tasks. After being programmed, it operates automatically.
·        Sensors: on or around the device that are able to sense the environment and give useful feedback to the device
·        Mechanical capability: enabling it to act on its environment rather than merely function as a data processing or computational device.
·        Flexibility: it can operate using a range of programs and manipulates and transport materials in a variety of ways.

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