1. ROBOTICS

2. INTRODUCTION
The branch of technology that deals with the
design, construction, operation, structural
deposition, manufacture and application of
robots for their control, sensory feedback and
processing.

3. ETYMOLOGY
• ‘Robot’ first used by Czech writer Karel Capek.
• ‘Robotics’ coined by Isaac Asimov
• First used in Asimov’s short story ‘Runaround’

4. COMPONENTS
Power source
Actuation
Air muscles
Muscle wire
Touch
Vision
Manipulation
Locomotion

6. MAKING THEM MORE HUMAN
Human Robot interaction
Speech recognition
Robotic voice
Gestures
Facial expressions
Artificial emotions
Personality

7. ROBOTICS - APPLICATIONS
• Industries
• War machines
• Education

8. ASIMOV’S 3 LAWS
1. A robot may not injure a human being
or, through inaction, allow a human being to
come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by
human beings, except where such orders
would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long
as such protection does not conflict with the
First or Second Laws.

9. ROBOTICS IN MODERN CULTURE
• Books

10. • Movies

11. CONCLUSION
Institutes such as MIT (through its cyberflora
project) and Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute are involved in Robotics
research. Considering the breakthroughs that
these institutes achieve periodically it is not
hard to imagine a future when Robots become
as common as medicines!!