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 CONTENTS
1.DEFINITION
2.THE WORD ROBOT COMES FROM
3.LAWS OF ROBOTICS
4.INTELLIGENCE BEHIND
5.NASA TELEROBOTICS PROGRAM
6.USE OF ROBOTS
->ROBOT IN DANGER ZONE
->ROBOSURGERY
->INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
->HUMAN ROBOTS
7.CONCLUSION
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 What is the definition of a 'robot'?

“ A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed
to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through
various programmed motions for the performance of a
variety of tasks" Obviously, this was a committee-written
definition. It's rather dry and uninspiring. Better ones for
'robotics' might include:
Force through intelligence. Where AI meet the real world.
Webster says: An automatic device that performs functions
normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a
human.
 THE WORD ROBOT COMES FROM
1. The word 'robot' was coined by the Czech playwright
          

Karel Capek (pronounced "chop'ek") from the Czech word

for forced labor or serf.
There is some evidence that the word robot was
actually coined by Karl's brother Josef, a writer in
his own right. In a short letter, Capek writes that he
asked Josef what he should call the artificial
workers in his new play. Karel suggests Labori,
which he thinks too 'bookish' and his brother
mutters "then call them Robots" and turns back to
his work, and so from a curt response we have the
word robot.
 The term 'robotics' refers to the study and use of
robots. The term was coined and first used by the
Russian-born American scientist and writer Isaac
Asimov.
Asimov also proposed his three "Laws of
Robotics", and he later added a 'zeroth law'.
 
  
 
 
  Law
    Zero:
A robot may not injure humanity, or, through
inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
    Law One:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm,
unless this would violate a higher order law.
    Law Two:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with a
 
higher order law.
    Law Three:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as
such protection does not conflict with a higher order
 The intelligence behind
A few decades from now experts claim, robots would have
advanced functions and would rival human intelligence.
According to them those intelligent machines would mimic
humans in almost every possible way. In simple terms the
ultimate artificial intelligence (AI) would be a recreation of
the human thought process-a man made machine with some of
our intellectual abilities. This would include the ability for the
machines to learn just about anything and the ability to reason,
think and possibly generate ideas. AI means the simulation of
human intelligence processes by machines, especially
computer systems wherein the machines after interacting with
their environments develop a power of reasoning and capable
of arriving at specific conclusions. The real challenge for AI is
to understand how natural intelligence works .
 NASA TELE ROBOTICS PROGRAM

The NASA Telerobotics Program addresses the three specific

mission and application areas: on-orbit assembly and
servicing, science payload tending, and planetary surface
robotics. Within each of these areas, the program supports the
development of robotic component technologies, development
of complete robots, and implementation of complete robotic
systems focused on the specific manipulation and mobility
aspects of the mission needs. These three program segments
align with the application of space telerobotics to the class of
missions identified by the potential space robotics user
community.
 INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS
Systematic is organization that specialization in
developing custom solution. In the area of robotics and
automation on the going abundance of technology in
western world and its vis-a –Vis comparison to the Indian
sub-continent while industrial Robots are a wide spread
norm. In western countries particularly Germany. Toyota
motor corporation unveiled to robots one with legs and
other with wheels that it is developing for expo 2005.A
1.2m. High robot playing trumpet version of when you
wish upon a star. TOYOTA the worlds second biggest car
maker it had no definite plans on how it would
commercialized the robots but said developing the
technology help other aspects of its business.
 ROBOSURGERY

Thanks to their precision, robotics is increasingly

being used during certain types of microsurgery.
This let surgeons perform delicate procedures that
would otherwise be too fine for human hands.
The surgeon can control the surgery from the
terminal in the room or at times several miles
away from the patient while robots go on
about their job.
 ROBOTS IN DANGER ZONE
Robots form an important part of landmines and
bomb detection squads in many countries. Besides such
land combing operations, the robot goes deep down the
earth’s crust, where temperatures are unbearable and also
search for buried treasures in the deepest of oceans and
sometimes work in nuclear reactors. The very purpose of
deploying robots is to shield humans from hazards.
Work is going on to build autonomous robots that
could search, detect and destroy the harmful elements.
Robots were recently used to recover humans trapped
under the debris of World Trade Center.
 CONCLUSION
The robotics field is quite promising but to make a
really intelligent robot takes supreme effort. The ultimate goal
of robotics is a super human system that embodies all the
skills (such as intelligence, touch and sensitivity) of humans
without of any their limitations (such as strength, ageing).