Portal:Robotics
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Applications include cleaning floors, mowing lawns, toxic waste cleanup, underwater and space exploration, surgery, mining, search and rescue, and searching for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and land mines.
Industrial robots used in manufacturing lines used to be the most common form of robots, but an increasing number of consumer robots are being developed. They are also finding their way into entertainment and home health care.
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a roboticist and research professor of robotics. He is currently the Fredkin Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute as well as the Director of the Field Robotics Center and Chief Scientist of the Robotics Engineering Consortium, both located at the university.
ASIMO is a humanoid robot created in 2000 by Honda.
ASIMO is 11th in a line of successive bipedal humanoid models created by Honda, starting with E0 in 1986 and with ASIMO being the latest design. ASIMO is considered the 4th man-like humanoid robot that can walk on two feet in a manner resembling human locomotion. Weighing 54 kilograms, the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack. Honda reports this robot can now run around at 6km/h speed. [1] [2]
Officially, the name is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". Contrary to popular belief, Honda's official statements indicate that the robot's name is not an homage to science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. In Japanese, the name is pronounced ashimo and, not coincidentally, means "legs also".
...that the word robot comes from a Czech word, and was popularized by Karel Čapek?
...that robots made to resemble humans may be called androids?
...that domestic robots have been built for tasks that include vacuuming floors and mowing lawns?
- The Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology demonstrates HRP-2, a robot designed for errands. [3]
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Robotics - Robots - Robotics stubs - Artificial intelligence - Robotics competitions - Unmanned vehicles - Cybernetics - Control theory - Electronics - Engineering - Roboticists
When asked about the possibility of robots eventually dominating mankind, George Devol mused "if people are stupid enough to let that happen, maybe they deserve it." (interview, June, 2006)
