ROBOT APPLICATIONS

Contemporary uses

Robots can be placed into roughly two categories based on the type of job they do:

• Jobs which a robot can do better than a human. Here, robots can increase productivity, accuracy, and endurance.

• Jobs which a human could do better than a robot, but it is desirable to remove the human for some reason. Here, robots free us from dirty, dangerous and dull tasks.
  
  

Increased productivity, accuracy, and endurance

Jobs which require speed, accuracy, reliability or endurance can be performed far better by a robot than a human. Hence many jobs in factories which were traditionally performed by people are now robotized.

Factory robots:

• Car production: A typical factory contains hundreds of robots working on fully automated production lines - one robot for every ten human workers .
  
  
  

• Packaging: are used extensively for palletizing and packaging of manufactured good.
  
  
  

  

• Automat ed Guided Vehicles (AGVs): Mobile robots, following markers or wires in the floor, or using vision or lasers, are used to transport goods around large facilities, such as warehouses, container ports, or hospitals.
  
  
  
  

  

Dirty, dangerous, dull or inaccessible tasks

For example domestic cleaning; exploring inside a volcano. Other jobs are physically inaccessible: exploring another planet, laparoscopic surgery.

• Robots in the home: Robots are increasingly being seen in the home where they are taking on simple but unwanted jobs, such as vacuum cleaning, floor cl eaning and lawn mowing or protecting the house.
  
  
  

  
  
  

• Rescue robots:
  
  
  

  

• Telerobots: A telerobot is controlled from a distance by a human operator. A laparoscopic surgery robot allows the surgeon to work inside a h uman patient on a relatively small scale compared to open surgery. The author Margaret Atwood, who has recently started using a robot pen to sign books remotely.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Military robots: Teleoperated robot aircraft are increasingly being used by the military. These robots can be controlled from anywhere in the world allowing an army to search terrain, and even fire on targets, without endangerin g those in control.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

• Elder Care: Robots are increasingly being used to look after old people
  
  
  

  
  

• Space Robots: Robots that can not be used in the earth because of their weight, are being used in the space.
  
  
• The Sojourner: it's a 6 wheeled vehicle and al lows scintists to explore other planets' surface.
  

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Unconventional Robots

It is expected that these new types of robot will be able to solve real world problems when they are finally realized.

• Nanorobots: Is the still largely hypothetical technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometer (10^-9 meters). They are used to build up macromolecules. Try to imitate cells.
  
  
  

  
  

• Reconfigurable Robots: Those robots can alter their physical form to suit a particular task . Real robots are nowhere sophisticated. Most of them consist of a small number of cube shaped units.
  
  
  

  
  

• Swarm robots: Inspired by colonies of insects. Scientist create very large swarms of tiny robots which together perform a useful task, such as finding something hidden, cleaning, or spying.
  
  
  

  

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