Introduction to Robotics
The field of robotics is growing leaps and bounds. Given advances in artificial intelligence, robots are no longer restricted to heavy steel arms, soldering cards, and silicon chips. They are becoming more sophisticated, able to respond, and even able to communicate in any world language. Types of Robots Personal robotics trends today is on the areas of improving the robot�s ability to carry out social interactions and to sense and move in the real world. While it has proven really difficult to create robots that can move smoothly and that can learn and adapt to unexpected situations in the way humans can, researchers are making progress and many experts believe that robotics research will eventually attain these goals. Recently, Intel set up two working personal robot prototypes. One demonstrated electric field pre-touch built into a robot hand to give the robot the ability to sense, or in essence �to feel�, objects before it touches them. The other demonstration featured a robot that...