INTRODUCTION TO
ROBOTICS
Presented by-
ARJUN CHOPRA
Under the guidance of-
Mrs. Rimple
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Advantages and
Disadvantages
Types of robots-
Application
Types of robots-
Locomotion
History and intro to
robots
Outline of the
presentation
Inroduction
Inferences
Resources
In the past, the human labor and the aid of domesticated
animals, both gave the efforts to build the earliest societies.
When the machines were invented to perform repetitive tasks,
like “lifting water and grinding grain”, and mechanics and
complex mechanisms were developed, human labor became
less important. As a result, more technological advances
developed slightly and widely spread.
Electronics was a major technological advance that led to the
creation of the “autonomous robots” by William Grey in 1948. In
1954, George Devol invented a digital and programmable robot
and called it “Unimate”, that later on was used to move hot
metal objects by General Motors in 1960.
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Robotics, as a branch of study deals with the following -
Automation
Communication
Image processing
Sensor networking
Artificial Intelligence
Radio controlling
Aeromodelling
Presentation giving tip from Shubh- :P
Learn the names of many robots and give random examples. No one
cares. Just use some technical terms and delete this box :P
Robots:
• what is a Robot?
-What are they made of?
•Robotics (the study of the robot)
•Why robots were invented?
-Why use Robots?
Types of robots by locomotion
•Stationary robots
•Wheeled robots
•Legged robots
•Swimming robots
•Flying robots
Types of robots by application
•Hard-tasks robots
•Military robots
•Social-services robots
•Space robots
•Robots under the water
•Robots with other functions
Advantages Vs. disadvantages
•Advantages
•Disadvantages
The influence of the robots and theirfuture
Resources
Conclusion
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Robots
What is a robot?
What are they made of?
 Definition= ‘forced work or labor’
 Czech origins
 Computer-controlled machine
 The controller ‘brain’
 Mechanical parts
 Sensors
Robotics
 The field of study of the robots
 Roboticists: people who specialize in robotics
 Robotics in our lives: has a big role in education, industry,
science and researches
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Robots invention
Why use robots?
 1948: the invention of the robots by the British robotics
pioneer; William Grey Walter
 The robot’s creating notion and it’s creation through ages
Robots
 Humans wanted a machine to rely on, because robots never
get tired and help the humans by different tasks all the time.
Will discuss the reasons more under the advantages of the
robots label.
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Types of robots by locomotion
I. Stationary robots
1.1 Cartesian/Gantry robots
1.2 Cylindrical robots
1.3 Spherical robots
1.4 SCARA robots
1.5 Articulated robots (robotic arms)
1.6 Parallel robots
II. Wheeled robots (rolling
robots)
2.1 Single wheel (ball) robots
2.2 Two-wheeled robots
2.3 Three and more wheel robots
III. Legged robots
3.1 Bipedal robots (humanoid robots)
3.2 Tripedal robots
3.3 quadrupedal robots
3.4 hexapod robots
3.5 other numbers of legs
IV. Others
4.1 Remote-control robots
4.2 Virtual robots
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Types of robots by application
 Hard-tasks robots
- Industrial robots
- Mobile robots
- Telerobots
 Military robots
- Telerobots
Social-services robots
- Domestic or houshold robots
- Medical robots
- School robots
- Entertainment robots
Space robots
- Telerobots
Robots under the water
Robots with other functions
- Robots in agriculture
- Beam robots
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 Used to do repetitive (boring) actions or jobs
 Perform a variety of tasks
 Improve in quality
 Increase in production
 Perform dangerous tasks that humans can’t do
 Robots do not get sick, they can work 24/7 without
complaining
Advantages & disadvantages
Advantages
 Expense
 No guarantee
 Expertise: training on to use robots takes time
 Safety
Disadvantages
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The robots’ influence, and theirfuture
 In the future, people and robots can go side by side in
their lives in each area. In several areas they are
irreplaceable now already.
 Replace many hard-working human workers with robots.
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Who knows exactly how this term “human and robots” will be translated
into future. Humans and robots that complement each other – they
prosper together and live together. However, Complicated tasks are still
best performed by human beings with real brainpower.
Resources:
http://42explore.com/robots.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-robots.htm
http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season10/robots/facts.cfm
http://www.robotmonkeyboy.com/different-types-of-robots.html
http://www.robotiksistem.com/index_en.html
http://inventors.about.com/od/roboticsrobots/a/RoboTimeline.htm
http://www.paulos.net/other/robot.html
http://www.koolgrapsite.com/advantages-of-robotics.html
http://www.robots.com/articles.php?tag=3503
http://www.robots.com/blog.php?tag=112
http://www.brighthub.com/engineering/mechanical/articles/33043.aspx
http://www.electronicsteacher.com/robotics/type-of-robots.php
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-robots.html
http://www.allonrobots.com/types-of-robots.html
http://www.ditii.com/2011/08/01/foxconn-replacing-human-workers-with-1-
million-robots-in-next-3-years/
http://www.wendymag.com/human-and-robots-perfect-relations/
 Websites:
 Books- articles:
Parallax team. (2003-2004). Robotics with Boe-Bot. Parallax Inc.
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THANK YOU
ANY QUESTIONS?
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