Robotics

Robotics: Is the study of robots (NASA).
Robots: are machines that can be use to do different jobs. Some robots can do work by itself., other robots must have a person telling them what to do. (NASA)
To the Robot Institute of America, a robot is a reprogrammable, multifunctional, manipulator, design to move materials, parts, tools or specialized devices through different motions.
¿What are the components of a robot?

• Sensors: Allows a robot to gather information about its environment, that controls the behaviour.

          * Cameras: help the robot contruct a visual representation of a visual representation of its                         environment. This camera help the robot judge attributes of the environment.

          * Microphones and buttons: Allows the robot to detect sound. Buttons are embedded bumpers                to determine the collides with an object or a wall

          *Thermometers and barometers: are equipped to sense temperature and pressure

          * LIDAR (Light detection and ranging): are sensor that use lasers to construct 3D maps of their              surroundings 

          *Accelerator and magnometers: are equipped to sense the movement in respect to the earth's                    gravity and magnetic field

• .Effectors: Are the parts of the robots that actually do the job.

           *End effectors: are tools used at the end of robotic arms or legs. Some examples of these are                  spikes, lights, hammer and screw-drivers.

           *Motors: can be used for many of the moving parts of a robot, some of these are: wheels,                      flaps and propellers

           *Speaker: they are used to allow robots to produce sound.

• Control Systems (The brain): is the brain of the robot or what controls the robots

           *Pre-Programmed: robots that are pre programmed to repeat the same operation over and over              again. They have very limited information about the environment

           * Autonomous: Are sensory parts that allow the robot to detect the environment, and change                   their behaviour from the conditions of the environment.