Friday, May 2, 2008

Robotics


Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation and application of Robots. Robot is a mechanical artificial agent which has an agency of its own. Generally the physical robots are referred to as robots, whereas the software agents are referred to as Bots. A person studying and working in the field of robotics is called as Roboticist. A company called Skilligent is working to reduce the cost of programming in Robots. Android is a kind of robot that is used to resemble human beings both in looks and in behavior. The other kinds of robots are the Humanoid robot, Rolling robot, Walking robot, Flying robot and much more..

Many International Universities spends millions of dollars to perform research in the field of robotics. Robotics involves the concept of Artificial Intelligence(AI). Robotics are applied in almost all the fields like the military, entertainment, engineering, industrial and much more. The Robots has certain fatalities too. The first man to be killed by a robot was Robert Williams who died at the casting plant at Flat Rock,MI. So its up to the humans(the creators of the robots) to develop robots in a creative way rather than as a destructive tool.

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