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Extended Difinition v1
Extended Difinition v1
ENGL 21007
Professor Maria Vint
September 16, 2019
Robotics
Robotics is the study of the design, construction and use of robots (Bulitin). Robotics is
tightly connected with other engineering subjects like mechanical engineering and electrical
engineering, as well as science subjects such as computer science, mathematic and biology. This
study aims to create the robots can be used as human subsitute or human assistance.
The word “robot” was first brought out by Czech playwright Karl Capek in his work
R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in 1921 (Stanford University). This word “robot” is slave in
Czech, which can exactly describe the purpose of those kind of machines – do the routine and
boring task for human and perform human’s commands (Stanford University). The word
writer Isaac Asimov (Stanford University). Asimov saw robots as a “better, cleaner race” and set
up three rules for them, which is knows as “Laws of Robotics” and now scientists still use those
With many subjects involve, robot is a complicated system that consist of sensors,
can be considered as robots. In order to being classify as a robot, the machine is required to have
1. The ability to sense the environment that it’s working in. such as that touch and
(IntroBooksEducation).
2. A robot has the ability to move from one place to another like Boston Dynamics’
robot dog. Or at least has the ability to move part of its structure, like the machine
3. Has the internal energy source and the source is rechargeable (IntroBooksEducation).
4. Intelligent. A robot should have the ability to complete the given tasks or human
commands. That robot should have some way to receive and upgrade the instruction
1. Aerospace. This category includes all the fling robots, as well as the robots that can
Figure 1 Robonaut can use tools designed to be used by astronauts on the space station. (NASA)
2. Consumer. This kind of robots are the robots that can find in the market and are used
3. Disaster Response. This kind of robots are for performing dangerous jobs like
5. Education. This kind of robots are for home or in classrooms education. Those robots
are programmable and come with an easy-use application for programming. Such as
Lego’s robots.
people.
7. Exoskeletons. This kind of robots are used for physical rehabilitation to help patient
perform daily activities. They also can strength solders’ power and speed in military
purpose.
8. Industrial. This category of robots is designed for performing repetitive tasks. The
9. Self-driving cars. Self-driving car can drive the user to the destination without any