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Robotics & Robots
What is robotics?
The study and use of robots
What is a robot?
A robot has 3 features:
1. Body - a physical body of some type
2. Control - a program that controls it
3. Behaviour - exhibits some of behaviour or action
Some examples of everyday robots: traffic light, photocopier, atm/bank
machine, microwave, VCR, an electric gate, scanner at the cash register
How do humans compare with robots? Five similarities are:
- Humans have a brain to process information and make decisions.
Robots also have a brain, it's just a computer brain made up
electrical circuits etc.
- Humans have muscles and tendons to help us move.
Some robots have motors that make them move
- Humans have joints, bones and cartilage that help us make
complicated movements
Robots are made up of mechnical parts like gears, pulleys and
other mechanisms
- Humans eat food to gain energy and our systems sends signals
back and forth to our senses
Robots have a power source and send electricity back and forth
to its inputs and outputs
- Humans have 5 senses: sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell
Robots have sensors that allow information to pass to and from
their environment
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