PRESENT DAY DEFINITIONS OF A ROBOT. |
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JAPANESE ROBOT ASSOCIATION
1: Manual - Handling Devices actuated by an operator
2: Fixed Sequence Robot
3: Variable-Sequence Robot with easily modified sequence of control
4: Playback Robot, which can record a motion for later playback
5: Numerical Control Robots with a movement program to teach it tasks manually
6: Intelligent robot: that can understand its environment and able to complete the task despite changes in the operation conditions
Robotics Institute of America
Countries have different definitions of what it means to be a robot. For example, the Robotics Institute of America (RIA) defines a robot as:
A re-programmable multi-functional manipulator designed to move materials, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks and also recognizes four classes of robot:
· A: Handling devices with manual control
· B: Automated handling devices with predetermined cycles
· C: Programmable, servo-controlled robots with continuous of point-to-point trajectories
· D: Robots capable of Type C specifications which also acquire information from
WHERE ROBOTS ARE USED.
Robots are used almost everywhere in some capacity. Healthcare, Military, Industry, Space,Under Water, in Industry or Science to name but a few places you will find them. Anywhere where it is dangerous (such as a war zone, space or under water) or in industry (where it is safer to use robotic machines on repetitious jobs) these metal machines are to be found. They do not require paying, they work very long hours often in very dirty and difficult places without complaining and they can be programmed to be very precise and they are not human. They are just machines being programmed by a human being.
Children still get great fun out of Robots and now there are many competitions and games where people from all over the world get together to learn and compete. Universities and colleges all over the world have courses on the subject and Nasa and many other large organisations are trying to raise the interest in Robotics as they see that this is an essential science of the future.
WHEN IS A ROBOT NOT A ROBOT? WHEN ITS A BOT.
Internet or Web Robots are known as Bots and are software programmes that can run automated tasks over the internet. Similar to all other robots these tasks are fairly simple repetitive commands done at a much higher rate of speed than a human could manage. Web spidering is one of the major uses. Ebay has taken people to court for using Bots and finding bargains but with little success as the cases have then atracted other Bots and so on.
Bots are sometimes used in a malicious way by automated attacks on network computers Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers. Denial of a service attack is another malicious use of Bots and such things as spambots now exist which spam large amounts of Internet content and add advertising links. To name but a few.
Spambots that harvest email addresses from contact forms or guestbook pages
Downloader programs that suck bandwidth by downloading entire web sites
Web site scrapers that grab the content of web sites and re-use it without permission on automatically generated doorway pages
Viruses and worms
Bots are also used to buy up good seats for concerts, particularly by ticket brokers who resell the tickets. Bots are employed against entertainment event-ticketing sites, like TicketMaster.com. The bots are used by ticket brokers to unfairly obtain the best seats for themselves while depriving the general public from also having a chance to obtain the good seats. The bot runs through the purchase process and obtains better seats by pulling as many seats back as it can.
Bots are often used in multiplayer online roleplaying games to farm for resources that would otherwise take significant time or effort to obtain; this is a concern for most online in-game economies.
USED ROBOTS
Well, as all machines at some point a robot must die. We tend to give almost human qualities to robots whereas really they are just a bunch of nuts and bolts with some sort of software thrown in. As per an old car there are firms who deal in old robots. They disassemble them, sell parts, repaint them, refurbish them , all without very much emotion. As everyone knows parts of anything wear out, parts fall off and at some point one considers the cost of replacing with the cost of buying new. Robots in real life are no different. Depending on the type of robot and the use it has been put to, as this obviously makes a difference to its long term life. Like an old car replacement vehicles are always available and as the years go buy manufacturers of robots are bringing out new and 'better' models. There are a few of course that are lucky enough to get put in a museum or go to a collector but that is a very small percentage. It may seem to some a little bit like killing off ET {who was an extra terrestial, not a robot at all}many millitary ones just get blown up while going about their everyday job, but thats the best a robot can expect. Arent you glad you are a human?
Link to Buying a New or Old Robot or Spare Parts for a Robot.
http://www.used-robots.com/
http://www.used-robots.com/robotics.php?page=used+robots+mistakes
FUTURE MARKET VALUE OF ROBOTS AND ROBOTIC PRODUCTS
The worldwide market for industrial and service robots is forecast to be worth more than $66 billion by 2025 |
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