All About Networking: 3. Types of Robots

Types of Robots
1. Using a table, compare and contrast (i.e. similarities and difference) i) Non-Adaptive Robots with ii) Adaptive Robots. Ensure you give some examples and include pictures of each (p. 247).

Non-Adaptive Robots	Adaptive Robots
Cannot make decisions	Can make decisions
Cannot learn from its surroundings	Can learn from its surroundings

Industrial	Domestic
Efficiently complete routine and repetitive tasks	Can automatically handle routine tasks
sed in manufacturing, electronics assembly, food processing and many other areas of production	Can clean and vacuum, can even sometimes mow lawns
Needs a mean of carrying outs instructions; an end effector	Robotic pets are availible
Non-Adaptive (Cannot make decisions)	Adaptive (Can make decisions

2. Again, using a table, compare and contrast Industrial Robots with Domestic Robots. Once again, ensure you include examples and pictures (p. 248)- example of domestic robot is in iRobot, and an example of an industrial robot is in a car factory, specifically BMW robots.

Industrial Robots	Domestic Robots
Are usually bigger	Are smaller, but smarter.
Usually part of a production line and carry out steps and repeat them	Does multiple things and then does what the owner wants them to do
Usually single- arm with no body or face, computer is no in the robot	Usually has a body, face and computer is in the robot

Industrial	Domestic
Efficiently complete routine and repetitive tasks	Can automatically handle routine tasks
sed in manufacturing, electronics assembly, food processing and many other areas of production	Can clean and vacuum, can even sometimes mow lawns
Needs a mean of carrying outs instructions; an end effector	Robotic pets are availible
Non-Adaptive (Cannot make decisions)	Adaptive (Can make decisions

3. Provide a detailed overview of one industrial robot.

4. Define Nanotechnology and Nonorobots. Check out the video below for an intro to Nanotechnology (note: it goes for 15 minutes): Definition of Nanorobots (Wiki): Nanorobotics is the emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10⁻⁹ meters). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, with devices ranging in size from 0.1–10 micrometers and constructed of nanoscale or molecular components.

5. Do you think there is a place for Nanorobots? Please justify your answer with clear examples. The following video may give you some additional information.

I believe that there is a clear place for nanorobots, as they can be very useful in medical applications, these nanorobots could work at the cell level, and help repair them to get rid of diseases and therefore potentially save a life. Nanorobots in medial applications could also be useful for delivering medicines or pharmaceutical products, a clear example where nanorobots could be better than normal medicine is nanorobots in place of chemotherapy, as chemo has very bad side effects, using nanorobots could help alleviate these side effects, while still being useful, in that they could deliver their medicine directly to a cell.

5. Do you think there is a place for Nanorobots? Please justify your answer with clear examples. The following video may give you some additional information.
6. If you could have a domestic robot built, what would it be and why. Ensure you justify your answer and provide an overview of the features this robot would have.
6. If you could have a domestic robot built, what would it be and why. Ensure you justify your answer and provide an overview of the features this robot would have.
7. Based on your design above, see if you can create a replica of your robot by using an online robot design tool (I have included two below, i) Walkinator & ii) Robot 3). Once you have created a robot, ensure you include a print screen of it below, or if it can be animated, then include a giff file, or even use screen-o-matic to record the animation and place it below.
http://skunksoup.com/2012/01/free-online-games/skill-chance/physics/rag-doll/walkinator-design-a-walking-robot
Virtual Robotic Lab
Example of Walkinator
Example of Walkinator

1. Using a table, compare and contrast (i.e. similarities and difference) i) Non-Adaptive Robots with ii) Adaptive Robots. Ensure you give some examples and include pictures of each (p. 247).

Definition of Nanorobots (Wiki): Nanorobotics is the emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10⁻⁹ meters). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, with devices ranging in size from 0.1–10 micrometers and constructed of nanoscale or molecular components.