Found in auto, medical, manufacturing and space industries

• Found in auto, medical, manufacturing and space industries

• Essential characteristics:

• Sensing - Input devices
• Movement  - Servo’s
• Energy - Power source
• Intelligence  - Programming

• Is a system that contains sensors, control systems, manipulators, power supplies and software all working together to perform a task

• Problem, posing, solving, designing, building, programming and testing a robot is a combination of physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering, mathematics and computing