Robotics A General Overview of a Robot’s Construction

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Humanity was and always is attracted to the concept of an artificial being that would make life easier and more enjoyable. The word Robot was introduced in 1921 by Karel Capek, who was a check writer in his play "R.U.R" (Rossuum's Universal Robots ) that originally meant compulsory labor. Then in 1927 Fritz Lang, in his movie Metropolis was the first to project a robot in the modern meaning. Nowadays the general understanding about robots, according to the Robot Institute of America as of 1979, a robot is perceived as "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" . Simply put, according to Encyclopædia Britannica , a robot is any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner . Also, to fit the goal of this paper, a proper definition is needed from the text book that we are currently using, Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach, defines a Robot as an active, artificial agent whose environment is the physical world. The active part rules out rocks, the artificial part rules out animals and the physical part rules out pure software agents . In this paper I am going to discuss which are the main tasks that robots can performs and mainly what are robots made of.

Generally talking, one would say that to make an autonomous robot from scratch, not too many things are needed. It would need a generic planning agent (or it can also be a Decision Making Agent), equip it with wheels and a camera (any visual scanning device and mechanical legs) and that is basically it. But there is anothe...

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