PRESENTATION ON ROBOTICS

INTRODUCTION
Robotics is a branch of science and 
engineering dealing with the study of 
robots. It is involved with a robot's
design, manufacture, application, and
structural disposition. The term
"robotics" was coined by Isaac Asimov in
his 1941 science fiction short-story "Liar!
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 HISTORY
In 1921, Czech writer Karel Čapek introduced the
word "robot" in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's
Universal Robots). The word "robot" comes from
the word "robota", meaning, in Czech, "forced
labour, drudgery".
Fully autonomous robots appeared in the second
half of the 20th century. The first digitally
operated and programmable robot, the Unimate,
was installed in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal
from a die casting machine and stack them. 
 STRUCTURE
• The structure of a robot is usually
mostly mechanical and can be called
a kinematic chain.
• its functionality being similar to the skeleton
of the human body
 POWER SOURCE
• At present; mostly  batteries are used, but
potential power sources could be:
• pneumatic (compressed gases)
• hydraulics (compressed liquids)
• flywheel energy storage
 TYPES OF ROBOTS
• ROLLING ROBOTS
• WALKING ROBOTS
• FLYING ROBOTS
• SKATING AND SWIMMING ROBOTS
 ROLLING ROBOTS
• For simplicity, most mobile robots have
four wheels. However, some researchers have
tried to create more complex wheeled robots,
with only one or two wheels. These can have
certain advantages such as greater efficiency,
reduced parts, and allow a robot to navigate
in tight places that a four wheeled robot
would not be able to.
 WALKING ROBOTS
• Walking is a difficult and dynamic problem to
solve. Several robots have been made which
can walk reliably on two legs, however none
have yet been made which are as robust as a
human.
 FLYING ROBOTS
• A modern passenger airliner is essentially
a flying robot, with two humans to manage it.
The autopilot can control the plane for each
stage of the journey, including takeoff, normal
flight, and even landing
 CONTROLS
• The mechanical structure of a robot must be
controlled to perform tasks. The control of a
robot involves three distinct phases -
perception, processing, and
action. Sensors give information about the
environment or the robot itself. This
information is then processed to calculate the
appropriate signals to the actuators (motors)
which move the mechanical.
 USES
• EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• MEDICAL TREATMENT
• INDUSTRIES