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Business Definition for: Robot

  • a programmable machine equipped with sensing capabilities used in production environments. Robots are used in automatic assembly and automated handling situations.

Wiktionary Definition for: Robot

  • A mechanical or virtual, artificial agent.
  • An electro-mechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.
  • A machine which is anthropomorphic or zoomorphic in shape or scope of function.
  • A person who does not seem to have any emotions.
  • (''South Africa'') traffic light Traffic lights.

Additional Resources

Robot-assisted pizza. (robot developed by the Carnegie-mellon Research Institute's Center for Human Services Robotics) (column)
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Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, robot, robotics
Research articles 1991-01-01
An Integrated Communicative Robot -BUGNOID
A communicative robot -BUGNOID- which integrates various sensory data and behavior modules is introduced with some experimental results. To achieve flexible communication with humans, the robot has a multi-modal interface with diverse channels of communication. Moreover, the robot can create an environmental map and recognize its environment taking human behavior...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Robots
White papers 2003-12-06
A Planar Robot for High-Performance Manipulation
This white paper deals with the novel planar robot that is used to demonstrate that large numbers of axes are not required for effective manipulation, and that there can be strong advantages to eliminating excess degrees-of-freedom. This robot combines sub-micron precision with a meter-sized workspace, motions with velocities above 1...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Robots, High-performance, Carnegie-Mellon University
White papers 2001-01-12
Legless Locomotion for Legged Robots
This white paper makes use of simple models to study how leg motions affect body attitude configuration for high centered robot. Legged robots offer rough terrain mobility, but sometimes conventional legged locomotion may fail, for example, when the robot gets stuck on a rock, and no leg has contact with...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Robots
White papers 2004-04-01
Honda's walking robot
Isaac Asimov, the science-fiction writer who first coined the term "robotics," would be impressed had he lived to see a new development from Honda: a robot that walks in very much the same manner as a human being. Honda designed its Model P3 robot after doing much research on human...
Tags: Honda Motor Co., robot
Research articles 2000-03-01
National Robot Safety Conference XVII Highlights OSHA, New Developments in Robot Safety Standards
YPSILANTI, Mich. -- This year, OSHA has two speakers at the National Robot Safety Conference XVII in Ypsilanti, Michigan Metro Detroit. Compliance Officer, Aaron Priddy, leads a Machine Tool Safety workshop, and John Washam of OSHA leads a session on how the robot safety standard is applied by this agency....
Tags: OSHA, robot
Research articles 2005-10-04
iRobot Introduces Workshop Robot; New iRobot Dirt Dog Sweeps Up the Dirtiest Places in Your Home
BURLINGTON, Mass. -- iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT) today announced a new addition to its family of home robots, the iRobotR Dirt DogTM Workshop Robot. The rugged robot is designed to pick up small nails, dirt, sawdust and other debris that accumulates in garages, basements and workbench zones. Priced at $129.99, the...
Tags: robot
Research articles 2006-09-13
Energy-Optimal Trajectories for Overactuated Robots
This white paper presents a method for computing energy optimal trajectories for an over actuated wheeled robot under quasistatic conditions, enabling it to climb over discontinuous terrain. The paper applies approach to control the Goes-Over-All-Terrain GOAT vehicle to define a continuous space of possible robot configurations as well as discrete...
Tags: Trajectory, Emerging Technologies, Robots
White papers 2002-07-12
'Let me entertain you'.
AIBO wasn't at the recent Robot & Vision Show in Detroit, but that may be because it's a sophisticated entertainment robot, not a work robot. Introduced by Sony Corp. for Internet sales, both in Japan and the U.S., the autonomous, four-legged rob AIBO wasn't at the...
Tags: robot, Sony Corp.
Research articles 1999-06-07
Groundbreaking Robot 'Zeno' Debuts at Wired NextFest
Robot Developed by Hanson Robotics Speaks, Learns and Interacts with People and Environment
Tags: robot, Wired Inc.
Research articles 2007-09-13
KUKA Robotics Selected by C.M.H. Manufacturing to Provide 7 Axis Robot for Aluminum Ladling Application; KUKA Robot Fitted with End of Arm Ladle Tool Creates 7 Axis Robot Used to Reduce Waste and Ensure Pouring Consistency
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, today announced it has been selected by C.M.H. Manufacturing of Lubbock, Texas to provide 7 axis robot for aluminum ladling applications. The 6-axis KUKA robot is fitted with an end of arm tool to create a...
Tags: Axis, robot
Research articles 2006-03-22
A PDA Enabled Wireless Interface for a Mobile Robot
This white paper project describes a wireless application that allows remote control of a robot. The application adopts an object-oriented philosophy in which every robot is a device represented by an object. The application runs in a PC with a web server. The interface is done using common Java GUI's.
Tags: Application, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Wireless, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Robots, Object-oriented, Case Western Reserve University, Mobile, PDA
White papers 2004-03-19
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Wittmann touting sprue-picker robot A hand-held pendant runs the W601 sprue-picker robot from Wittmann Robot & Automation Systems Inc. of Torrington, Conn. A cable track supports air and electrical lines on the robot, eliminating air-hose Wittmann touting sprue-picker...
Tags: fax, robot
Research articles 1999-06-14
World Wise Completes General Dynamics T3-776 Robot Project And Releases RC5000 PC-Based Robot Controller
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Tags: General Dynamics Corp., robot
Research articles 2000-06-19
Virginia Tech Engineering Students Use NI LabVIEW to Develop a Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot
Bipedal, Soccer-Playing Robot Is the First U.S. Entry Accepted to RoboCup
Tags: Virginia Tech
Research articles 2007-10-25
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Gadget, Gizmos, and Gossip Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Oct. 30--SONY'S UPGRADED ROBOT DOG OFFERS ADVANCED FEATURES: Sony has new pet robot dog on the market. Oct. 30--SONY'S UPGRADED ROBOT DOG OFFERS ADVANCED FEATURES: Sony has new pet robot dog on the market.
Tags: Sony Corp.
Research articles 2000-10-30
MR Compatible Surgical Assist Robot: System Integration and Preliminary Feasibility Study
A magnetic resonance MR compatible surgical assist robot system under preclinical evaluation is described. It is designed to coexist, and cooperate, with a surgeon, and to position and direct an axisymmetric tool, such as a laser pointer or a biopsy catheter. The main mechanical body is located above the head...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Harvard College, Body, Magnetic Resonance Compatibility, Integration, Surgeon, Robots
White papers 2000-07-24
"I Shall Call Him Mini-Me" - mini-robot developed at Sandia National Laboratories - Brief Article
At 1/4-cubic-inch and weighing less than 1 ounce, this mini-robot from the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories may be the smallest autonomous untethered robot ever created. Powered by three watch batteries, it rides on track wheels and consists of an 8K ROM processor, temperature sensor and two motors that...
Tags: Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2001-04-01
KUKA Robotics Signs Deaton Engineering as New System Partner; Partnership to Provide Robot Application Bundle Utilizing KUKA Robots and Deaton's New FDA Approved Secure Graphical User Interface
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, today announced it has signed Deaton Engineering of Georgetown, Texas as its newest system partner. The partnership will provide customers with a new robot application bundle that includes a KUKA robot and Deaton Engineering's new secure...
Tags: FDA, GUI, partnership, robot, robotics
Research articles 2006-04-10
PUMA robot added to Smithsonian
General Motors Controls, Robotics and Welding CRW organization (Warren, MI) has donated the original prototype Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly PUMA robot to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (Washington, DC). It joins a distinguished collection of historically important robots that includes an early Unimate and the Odetics...
Tags: robot
Research articles 2002-07-01
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