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What is Robotics?
A: Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, computer science, and others.

Robotics deals with the design, construction, operation, and use of what?
A: Robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.

These technologies are used to develop machines that can do what?
A: Substitute for humans and replicate human actions.

Robots can be used in many situations and for lots of purposes, but today many are used in what type of environments?
A: Dangerous environments (including bomb detection and deactivation), manufacturing processes, or where humans cannot survive (e.g. in space).

Robots can take on any form but some are made to resemble what?
A: Humans in appearance.

This is said to help in the acceptance of a robot in certain replicative behaviors usually what?
A: Performed by people.

Such robots attempt to replicate what?
A: Walking, lifting, speech, cognition, and basically anything a human can do.

 
Many of today's robots are inspired by what?
A: Nature, contributing to the field of bio-inspired robotics.

Throughout history, it has been frequently assumed that robots will one day be able to do what?
A: Mimic human behavior and manage tasks in a human-like fashion.

Robotics is also used in what?
A: STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as a teaching aid.

Robotics is a branch of engineering that involves what?
A: The conception, design, manufacture, and operation of robots.

This field overlaps with what other fields?
A: Electronics, computer science, artificial intelligence, mechatronics, nanotechnology and bioengineering.

The word robotics was derived from what?
A: The word robo.

The word “robot” was introduced to the public by whom?
A: Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which was published in 1920.

 
The word robot comes from the Slavic word robota, which means what?
A: Labor or work.

The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called what?
A: Robots, creatures who can be mistaken for humans – very similar to the modern ideas of androids.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by whom?
A: Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction.

Asimov was unaware that he was what?
A: Coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots.

In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in what?
A: His short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942), where he introduced his concept of The Three Laws of Robotics.

However, the original publication of "Liar!" predates that of "Runaround" by how long?
A: Ten months, so the former is generally cited as the word's origin.

In 1948, Norbert Wiener formulated the principles of what?
A: Cybernetics, the basis of practical robotics.

 
The first digitally operated and programmable robot, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 to do what?
A: Lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them.

Commercial and industrial robots are widespread today and used to perform jobs more cheaply, more accurately and what?
A: More reliably, than humans.

They are also employed in some jobs which are too dirty, dangerous, or dull to be suitable for whom?
A: Humans.

One of the earliest descriptions of automata appears in the Lie Zi text, on a much earlier encounter between King Mu of Zhou (1023–957 BC) and whom?
A: A mechanical engineer known as Yan Shi, an 'artificer'.

The latter allegedly presented the king with what?
A: A life-size, human-shaped figure of his mechanical handiwork.

In 1898, what did Nikola Tesla demonstrate?
A: The first radio-controlled vessel.

A humanoid robot was exhibited at what World's Fairs?
A: 1939 and 1940.

 
In 1974, the world's first microcomputer controlled electric industrial robot, IRB 6 from ASEA, was delivered to a what?
A: A small mechanical engineering company in southern Sweden.

The design of this robot had been patented already in what year?
A: 1972.

What was developed in 1978?
A: The first object-level robot programming language.

What did the language allow robots to do?
A: To handle variations in object position, shape, and sensor noise.

Robots have electrical components which do what?
A: Power and control the machinery.

That power comes in the form of electricity, which will have to travel through a wire and originate from what?
A: A battery.

All robots contain some level of what?
A: Computer programming code.

 
A program is how a robot decides what?
A: When or how to do something.

Programs are the core essence of a robot, it could have excellent mechanical and electrical construction, but if its program is poorly constructed its performance will be what?
A: very poor (or it may not perform at all).

What are the three different types of robotic programs?
A: Remote control, artificial intelligence and hybrid.

A robot with remote control programming has a preexisting set of commands that it will only perform if and when it receives what?
A: A signal from a control source, typically a human being with a remote control.

Robots that use artificial intelligence interact with their environment on their own without a control source, and can do what?
A: Determine reactions to objects and problems they encounter using their preexisting programming.

Hybrid is a form of programming that incorporates what?
A: Both AI and RC functions.

Robots are designed for assembly work, are termed as what?
A: "assembly robots".

 
For seam welding, some suppliers provide what, with the robot?
A: Complete welding systems.

Such an integrated robotic system is called a what?
A: A "welding robot" even though its discrete manipulator unit could be adapted to a variety of tasks.

Some robots are specifically designed for heavy what?
A: Load manipulation, and are labeled as "heavy duty robots".

Caterpillar plans to develop what?
A: Remote controlled machines.

Caterpillar also expects to develop fully autonomous heavy robots by when?
A: 2021.

It was demonstrated that a robot can perform what type of task?
A: A herding task.

Robots have been used in manufacturing since when?
A: The 1960s.

 
In the auto industry, they can amount for more than half of the what?
A: Labor.

There are even "lights off" factories such as an IBM keyboard manufacturing factory in Texas that is what?
A: 100% automated.

Robots such as HOSPI are used as couriers in what type of facilities?
A: Hospitals (hospital robot).

Other hospital tasks performed by robots are what?
A: Receptionists, guides and porters helpers.

Boris is a robot that can do what?
A: Load a dishwasher.

Actuators are the "muscles" of a robot; the parts which convert stored energy into what?
A: Movement.

By far, what are the most popular actuators?
A: Electric motors that rotate a wheel or gear, and linear actuators that control industrial robots in factories.

 
The vast majority of robots use electric motors, often brushed and brushless DC motors in portable robots or “what”, in industrial robots and CNC machines?
A: AC motors.

These motors are often preferred in systems with what?
A: Lighter loads, and where the predominant form of motion is rotational.

Recent alternatives to DC motors are what?
A: Piezo motors or ultrasonic motors.

These work on a fundamentally different principle, whereby tiny piezo ceramic elements, vibrating many thousands of times per second, cause what?
A: Linear or rotary motion.

Sensors allow robots to receive information about a certain measurement of what?
A: The environment, or internal components.

Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that what?
A: See.

As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory behind artificial systems that do what?
A: Extract information from images.

In most practical computer vision applications, the computers are pre-programmed to solve a particular task, but methods based on “what”, are now becoming increasingly common?
A: Learning.

Several robots have been made which can do what?
A: Walk reliably on two legs.

 
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