Intro to Robotics

What is a robot?

• Machines that use their programming to make decisions.

• An intelligent being.

• An electronic device for storing an processing data.

• A machine designed to accomplish a task.

Sensors are for

• making decisions

• input

• output

Control systems are for

• input

• decision-making

• output

End effectors are for

• input

• decision making

• output

Any attempt to make a computer do something that would normally be associated with human intelligence.

• robot

• machine

• brain

• artificial intelligence

When was the first industrial machine given vision?

• 1889

• 1994

• 1981

• 2005

What are household robots usually programmed for?

• many tasks

• a single task

• artificial intelligence

• friendship