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Anatomy
What is a robot? Why Robot? Why Robot? (cont.) Developments Timeline Developments Timeline (cont.) Robots Brain Exercise Robot Type Robot control loop Things robot cant do (yet) Challenges in Robotics Recommended Reading

W2 - Robot Anatomy

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What is a robot?
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Robot can be autonomous, teleoperated or both All robot must have sense-think-act loop

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Why Robot?
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Thing that humans _______ do

cannot do not want to should not

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Why Robot? (cont.)

W2 - Robot Anatomy What is a robot? Why Robot? Why Robot? (cont.) Developments Timeline Developments Timeline (cont.) Robots Brain Exercise Robot Type Robot control loop Things robot cant do (yet) Challenges in Robotics Recommended Reading

Knowledge/Science

Can we understand how human/animals/nature do?

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Developments Timeline

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Developments Timeline (cont.)

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Resources: Humanoid Robot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid_robot. Last accessed 14 March 2012

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Robots Brain
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How intelligent is a robot?

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Exercise
W2 - Robot Anatomy What is a robot? Why Robot? Why Robot? (cont.) Developments Timeline Developments Timeline (cont.) Robots Brain Exercise Robot Type Robot control loop Things robot cant do (yet) Challenges in Robotics Recommended Reading

Consider a robot that moves in a maze. How can the robot escape from the maze?

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Robot Type
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Robot control loop

W2 - Robot Anatomy What is a robot? Why Robot? Why Robot? (cont.) Developments Timeline Developments Timeline (cont.) Robots Brain Exercise Robot Type Robot control loop Things robot cant do (yet) Challenges in Robotics Recommended Reading

sense magnetic eld, speech, sound, vision, position, light, acceleration, force, velocity, touch, temperature, position, distance think path planning, motion planning, task planning, planning, classication, learn, analyze data, predict act output information, speech, visual, text, move Intelligent of a robot is strongly depend on how much and how fast it can sense the environment and itself

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Things robot cant do (yet)

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Take over the world! Brains Emotions i.e. understand jokes, face expression Self-reproducing Power supply i.e. storing, regenerating Evolving i.e. learning

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Challenges in Robotics
W2 - Robot Anatomy What is a robot? Why Robot? Why Robot? (cont.) Developments Timeline Developments Timeline (cont.) Robots Brain Exercise Robot Type Robot control loop Things robot cant do (yet) Challenges in Robotics Recommended Reading

Noise Real-time constraints Uncertainty Failure Limited & Changing resources Dynamic & unknown environment Interaction/collaboration with other agents

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Recommended Reading
W2 - Robot Anatomy What is a robot? Why Robot? Why Robot? (cont.) Developments Timeline Developments Timeline (cont.) Robots Brain Exercise Robot Type Robot control loop Things robot cant do (yet) Challenges in Robotics Recommended Reading

1. Bill Gates, A Robot in Every Home, Scientic America, 2006. Last accessed 9 April 2008, <http://http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-robot-in-everyhome>

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