( ** Edureka Online Training: https://www.edureka.co/ ** ) This Edureka tutorial looks at the surprisingly long history of robots -- from the industrial revolution to the modern day droid--and contemplates what it means to be a robot.

3. ❑ Manufacturing
❑ Assembly
❑ Packing
❑ Transport
❑ Geographical Exploration
❑ Space Exploration
❑ Mass Production
❑ Laboratory Research
❑ Household Tasks
Robots making our lives easier

4. What is a Robot?
A robot is a machine
designed to accomplish a
particular task.

5. SENSORS FOR INPUT
CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR DECISION MAKING
EFFECTORS FOR OUTPUT

6. * Later improved to form our
Modern Laws of Robotics, today.

7. Generations of
Robots

8. First Generation

9. Unimate
1961
Unimate
• First Industrial Robot
• Transports die-casting
• Welding parts
• Drum Memory

10. Second
Generation

11. Wabot I
1972
Wabot I
• First Humanoid Robot
• Machine Intelligence
• Motor & Vision System
• Ability to Communicate

12. SCARA
1981
SCARA
• Joint 2-link Arm
• Rigid at Z-axis
• Pliable at X&Y axes
• Unhindered Mounting

13. Third
Generation

14. Wabot II
1984
Wabot II
• In-built arm Motors
• Elimination of Long
Transmissions
• Successful interaction
with Humans

15. Fourth
Generation

16. AIBO
1998
AIBO
• Artificial Intelligence Bot
• 64-bit RISC Processor
• 8 MB RAM
• Sensors and Actuators

17. ROBONAUT II
2010
ROBONAUT II
• 38 Power PC Processors
• Wider Range of Sensing
• Reduced EM interference
• Works in Microgravity

18. Robots of Today

19. SOPHIA
2015

20. SOPHIA
19th April, ’15
• Artificial Intelligence
• Visual Data Processing
• Facial Recognition
• Speech-to-Text Technology
• Cloud Network
• Block Chain Technology