Chapter 12
Developing Robots
IN THIS CHAPTER
Distinguishing between robots in sci-fi and in reality
Reasoning about robot ethics
Finding more applications for robots
Looking inside how a robot is made
People often mistake robotics for AI, but robotics are different from AI. Artificial intelligence aims to find solutions to some difficult problems related to human abilities (such as recognizing objects, or understanding speech or text); robotics aims to use machines to perform tasks in the physical world in a partially or completely automated way. It helps to think of AI as the software used to solve problems, and of robotics as the hardware for making these solutions a reality.
Robotic hardware may or may not run using AI software. Humans remotely control some robots, as with the da Vinci robot discussed in the “Assisting a surgeon” section of Chapter 7. In many cases, AI does provide augmentation, but the human is still in control. Between these extremes of human control are robots that take more or less detailed instructions by humans (such as going from point A to point B on ...
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