13.6 Robotics
Robots are familiar to all of us. From television commercials about robotic dogs to the nightly news about space exploration to assembly lines producing beer, cars, or widgets, robots are a part of modern society. Robotics—the study of robots—breaks down into two main categories: fixed robots and mobile robots. Fixed robots are what you see on assembly lines. The machines stay put and the products move. Because the world of a fixed robot is circumscribed, its tasks can be built into the hardware. Thus fixed robots belong mostly in the area of industrial engineering. Mobile robots, by contrast, move about and must interact with their environment. Modeling the world of the mobile robot requires the techniques of artificial intelligence. ...
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