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Robots may soon be everywhere, in homes and at work. They could change the way humans live. If this happens, it will most likely raise many philosophical, social, and political questions that will have to be answered. In science fiction robots become so intelligent that they decide to take over the world because humans are deemed inferior. In real life however they might not choose to do that. Robots might follow rules such as Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, that will prevent them from doing so. If the Singularity happens robot will be indistinguishable from human beings and some people may become Cyborgs, with some parts half biological and half artificial. Singularity has several different meanings: mathematical singularity - a point where a mathematical function goes to infinity or is in certain other ways ill-behaved. ...
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Types of Robots
Humanoid robots
Lara is the first humanoid robot with artificial muscles (metal alloy strands that instantly contract when heated by electric current) [1] [2] instead of electric motors (2006).
Asimo (video at YouTube) is one of the most advanced projects as of 2006. Press release photo of the most recent ASIMO model ASIMO ) is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. ...
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Modular robots Modular robots can be built from standard building blocks that can be combined in different ways.
- Utility fog.
- M-Tran - a snake-like modular robot that uses genetic algorithms to evolve walking programs
- Self replicating robots [3] [4] - modular robots that can produce copies of themselves using existing blocks.
- Swarmanoid [5] [6] is a project that uses 3 specialized classes of robots (footbots, handbots and eyebots) to create an effective swarm. Such swarm should be able, for example, to tidy a bedroom with each robot doing what it is best at.
Educational toy robots Visualization of foglet with arms retracted and extended Diagram of a 100-micrometer foglet Utility fog is a hypothetical collection of tiny robots, envisioned by Dr. John Storrs Hall while he was thinking about a nanotechnological replacement for car seatbelts. ...
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Sports Robots
RoboCup // Overview RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. ...
Applications - Caterpillar plans to develop remote controlled machines and expects to develop fully autonomous heavy robots by 2021 [7]. Some cranes already are remote controlled.
- It was demonstrated that a robot can perform a herding [8] task.
- Robots are increasingly used in manufacturing (since 1960s). In auto industry they can amount for more than half of the "labor". There are even "lights off" factories such as an IBM keyboard manufacturing factory in Texas that are 100% automated.
- Robots such as HOSPI [9] are used as couriers in hospitals, etc. Other hospital tasks performed by robots are receptionists, guides and porters helpers, [10] (not to mention surgical robot helpers such as Da Vinci)
- Robots can serve as waiters [11] [12] and cooks [13].
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Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. ...
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Economic impact Given that in the next two decades robots will be capable of replacing humans in most manufacturing and service jobs, economic development will be primarily determined by the advancement of robotics. Given Japan's current strength in this field, it may well become the economic leader in the next 20 years (part 1, part 2). Marshall Brain also discusses the emergence of robotic economy [14]. Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application. ...
Market evolution Today's market is not fully mature. One or more software compatibility layers have yet to emerge to allow the development of a rich robotics ecosystem (similar to today's personal computer's one). Microsoft is currently working in this direction with its new software Microsoft Robotics Studio. Other candidates to reach this goal might be Free Software solutions such as Player/Stage or cross-platform technologies such as URBI. The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. ...
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The Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project) is a project to create free software for research into robotics and sensor systems. ...
URBI is a cross-platform software platform used to develop applications for robotics and artificial intelligence. ...
Timeline Developments related to robotics from the NISTEP [1] 2030 report : This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. ...
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First generation Roomba vacuums the carpets in a domestic environment A domestic robot is a robot used for household chores. ...
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Robotics in 2020 Robots may be commonplace: in home, factories, agriculture, building & construction, undersea, space, mining, hospitals and streets; for repair, construction, maintenance, security, entertainment, companionship, care.
Purposes of these Robots:
- Robotized space vehicles and facilities
- Anthropomorphic general-purpose robots with hands like humans used for factory jobs - Intelligent robots for unmanned plants - Totally automated factories will be commonplace.
- Robots for guiding blind people and home automation for the elderly and disabled.
- Robots for almost any job in home or hospital, including Robo-surgery.
- Housework robots for cleaning, washing, transporting etc - Domestic robots will be small, specialized and attractive (= cuddly).
Properties of these robots: Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, making by hand) is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. ...
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This form of home automation (called assistive domotics) focuses on making it possible for the elderly and disabled to live at home and still be safe and comfortable. ...
First generation Roomba vacuums the carpets in a domestic environment A domestic robot is a robot used for household chores. ...
- Autonomous, with environmental awareness sensors .
- Self recharging, self diagnostic and self repairing.
- More sophisticated artificial brains, perhaps with ten thousand or more cells, combined with electronic circuits.
Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ...
Maintenance management or Maintenance, (MRO), is fixing any sort of mechanical or electrical device should it become out of order or broken (repair) as well as performing the routine actions which keep the device in working order (maintenance) or prevent trouble from arising (preventive maintenance). ...
Maintenance management or Maintenance, (MRO), is fixing any sort of mechanical or electrical device should it become out of order or broken (repair) as well as performing the routine actions which keep the device in working order (maintenance) or prevent trouble from arising (preventive maintenance). ...
References
Notes - ^ http://www.nistep.go.jp/
- ^ http://age-web.age.uiuc.edu/faculty/teg/Research/BiosystemsAutomation/AgRobots/AgRobots.asp
- ^ http://www.service-robots.org/applications/agriculture.htm
See also - Agricultural robotics
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