Types of Robots

10/29/2019

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Defining what robots are and how to classify them is not easy. Each robot has its own unique features, and overall robots vary greatly in size, shape, and capabilities. Still, most robots share different features. Here are 15 categories we used to classify robots.

Aerospace: This is a broad category. This includes all types of flying robots — for example, the Smartbird Robotic Seagull and the Raven Surveillance Drone — but spacecraft robots, Mars Rovers and NASA’s RoboNote, have moved to the International Space Station and are now humanoid back on Earth.

Consumer: Consumer robots are robots that you can buy and use for entertainment or help you in tasks and tasks. Examples include Robot Dog Ibo, Roomba Vacuum, AI-powered robot assistants and increasingly robotic toys and kits.

Disaster Response: These robots perform dangerous tasks, such as survivors following emergencies. For example, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Fukushima Daiichi used packbots to monitor damage at a nuclear power plant. https://medium.com/@usm36/types-of-robots-6cb29ebc15eb

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Drones: Also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, drones come in different sizes and have varying degrees of autonomy. Examples include DJI’s popular Phantom series and military systems such as the parrot’s Anafi, as well as the global hack used for long-range surveillance.

Education: This broad category targets the next generation of roboticists, for use at home or in classrooms. This includes programmable sets from Lego, 3D printers with lesson plans, and even teacher robots like EMYS. Entertainment: These robots are designed to trigger an emotional response and make us laugh or wonder or wonder. Among them are musically inclined bots such as the robot comedian Robo Thespian, Disney’s theme park robots Navi Shaman and partner.

Exoskeletons: Robotic exoskeletons for physical rehabilitation and allow the paralyzed patient to walk again. Some have industrial or military applications, giving the wearer the extra mobility, endurance or ability to carry heavy loads.

Humanoids: This is the kind of robot that most people think of when they think of a robot. Examples of humanoid robots include Honda’s Asimo, a mechanical version, and androids such as the Geminoid series.

Industrial: The traditional industrial robot consists of a manipulator arm designed to perform repetitive tasks. Grandfather Unite is an example of all factory robots. This category also includes systems such as Amazon’s warehouse robots and collaborative factory robots that can work with human workers. https://medium.com/@usm36/types-of-robots-6cb29ebc15eb

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Medical: Medical and health care robots include the Da Vinci Surgical Robot and Bionic Prostheses, as well as robotic exoskeletons. Watson is an IBM query-answering supercomputer that fits into this category but is a non-robot system that is used in health care applications.

Military & Security: Military robots include Endeavor Robotics Pack Bat and Ground Systems designed to assist troops in carrying heavy gear in Iraq and Afghanistan for scouting for improvised explosive devices. Security robots include autonomous mobile systems such as cobalt.

Research: Most of today’s robots are born in universities and corporate research labs. Although these robots can do useful things, they are mainly intended to help researchers. So while some robots fit into the other categories described here, they are also called research robots.

Self-driving cars: Many robots can drive themselves and a large number of them can now drive you. Early autonomous vehicles were built for DARPA’s Autonomous-Vehicle Competition and included Google’s pioneering self-driving Toyota Prius, which later formed the Waymo.

Telepresence: Telepresence robots allow you to stay in one place without actually going there. You log on to the robot avatar via the internet and run around it, watching what it sees and talking to people. Workers can use it to collaborate with colleagues in a remote workplace, and doctors can use it to check patients.

Underwater: The favorite place for these robots is in the water. They include deep-sea submersibles such as Aquanat, diving humanoids such as Ocean One, and bio-inspired systems such as the ACM-R5H Snakebot. https://medium.com/@usm36/types-of-robots-6cb29ebc15eb

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