About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Robot, Clanking replicator, Mecha, Autonomous robot, Care-Providing Robot FRIEND, Nanorobotics, Human-robot interaction, Mobile robot, Japanese robotics, List of robots, Robotic sensing, MakerBot Industries, Canadarm2, Rapid prototyping, SMErobot, Entomopter, Roboty, American robotics, OpenRTM-aist, Walking city, Open-source robotics, LAURON, Social robot, Dextre, Autonomous research robot, Universal Robotics, Stewart platform, Ballbot, ROS, Robot jockey, Robot as a Service, TR Arana, Hybrot, Snake-arm robot, Mobile manipulator, European Robotic Arm, Model robot, RuBot II, Ant robotics, Kanguera, SAVIOUR, RT middleware, Nova 5, Robotc, Jaquet-Droz automata, Shadow Hand, Remote manipulator, Service robot, MetraLabs GmbH, Bricx Command Center, Ubiquitous robot, TiLR, Albert One, Adelbrecht, Differential wheeled robot, NASA robots, RunBot, ESTAR, Animatronics, Phobot, Mechanical Gecko, EMIEW, WSFN, Baseball robot, Nomad 200, Walking truck, Meka robotics, Blobotics, Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, Analog robot, Robostrider, Rescue robot, Antweight World Series, Whegs, Ropid, Robotic pet, Rovio, UJI Online Robot, Robot operating system, Spherical robot. Excerpt: A robot is a mechanical intelligent agent which can perform tasks on its own, or with guidance. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and come in those two basic types: those which are used for research into human-like systems, such as ASIMO and TOPIO, as well as those into more defined and specific roles, such as Nano robots and Swarm robots; and helper robots which are used to make or move things or perform menial or dangerous tasks, such as Industrial robots or mobile or servicing robots. Another common characteristic is that, ..
