ROBOTIC

ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY

Discipline of science
and engineering
dedicate to the
d design, construction
and use of mechanical
robots.
CHARACTERISTICS

Mechanical • The mechanical aspect of a robot helps it complete tasks

in the environment for which it’s designed. E.g. the Mars
construction 2020 Rover’s wheels

Electrical • Always need electrical components that control and

components power the machinery.

computer • Robots contain at least some level of computer

programming. Without a set of code telling it what to do,
programmin a robot would just be another piece of simple machinery

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TYPES OF ROBOTS
Pre-Programmed Robots Humanoid Robots
• Operate in a • Look like and/or mimic human
controlled behavior.
environment • Perform human-like activities (
• Do simple, monotonous tasks. running, jumping and carrying
• Example objects), even look like us,
• mechanical arm on having human faces and
an expressions.
• E.g. Hanson Robotics’ Sophia
automotive assembly line.
• To weld a door on, to insert and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas.
a certain part into the
engine, etc.
Autonomous Robots Teleoperated Robots Augmenting Robots
• operate • mechanical • either enhance current
independently bots human capabilities or
of human operators. • work
controlled byin humans. replace the capabilities
• Designed
tasks in carry open
to out geographical
extreme a human may have lost.
environments that conditions, • E.g. robotic prosthetic
not circumstances,
weather, etc. limbs or exoskeletons
supervision
require do • E.g. human- used to lift
• E.g. Roomba human submarines or drones
controlled weights.
hefty
cleaner which uses
vacuum used to detect
, to roam landmines on a
throughout a home
sensors battlefield.
freely.
PRE PROGRAMMING ROBOT:
HUMANOID ROBOT:
AUTONOMOUS ROBOT:
TELEOPERATED ROBOT:
AUGMENTING ROBOT
Applications of Robotics
• Help to control forest fires
• Working in manufacturing plants with humans (known
as co-bots)
• Companionship to elder individuals
• Surgical assistants
• package and food order delivery
• Autonomous household robots that carry out home
tasks
• Assisting with finding items and carrying them
throughout warehouses
• Used during search-and-rescue missions after natural
disasters
• Landmine detectors in war zones
Uses of Robots

Manufacturing Logistics
• Robots and co-bots (bots • Shipping, handling
that work quality control robots and
humans) alongside
work to efficiently becoming a must-have for are
test and assemble products, most retailers and logistics
like cars and industrial companies.
equipment.
• There are more than three
million industrial robots in
use right now.
Home Trave
l
• Robots can be seen, helping • A combination of
with chores, reminding us of science
data and robotics, self-
our schedules and driving vehicles are taking
entertaining our kids.
even the world by storm.
• E.g. Roomba. • E.g. Automakers, like Tesla,
Ford, Waymo, Volkswagen
and BMW are all working on
the next wave of travel that
will let us sit back, relax and
enjoy the ride.
• Rideshare companies
Uber and Lyft
Healthcare
• robot-assisted surgeries to bots that help humans
recover from injury in physical therapy.
• E.g. Toyota’s healthcare assistants, which help people
regain the ability to walk, and “TUG,” a robot designed
to autonomously stroll throughout a hospital and
deliver everything from medicines to clean linens.
ROBOTIC PROCESS
AUTOMATION (RPA)

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ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION (RPA)

Software that can be easily programmed to do basic, repetitive

tasks across applications.

RPA creates and deploys a software robot with the ability to

launch and operate other software.

Designed primarily for office-type functions.

RPA works like a digital assistant.
Automation
types
Types of
RPA

Industrial Software
RPA RPA
Automation type

• Industrial automation is the process of automating

Industrial physical processes using physical robots and special
control systems.
automation • E.g. car factory with a very high level of autonomy.

• Software automation is to perform tasks people do with

Software computers.
• There are numerous branches of software automation:
automation test automation, robotic process automation, Intelligent
Automation, and many others.
AUTOMATION vs ROBOTICS

Automation is the process of using physical machines,

computer software and other technologies to perform tasks
that are usually done by humans.

VS
Robotics is the process of designing, creating and using
robots to perform a certain task.
INTELLIGENT PROCESS AUTOMATION VS ROBOTIC
PROCESS AUTOMATION
Intelligent process
Robotic process automation (RPA) automation, or Intelligent
Automation (IA),
• allows software robots to use
• automates the company’s
an
mimic human
application’s interfacewithout
useractions (UI) to business processes using RPA,
modifying systems or requiring BPM, analytics and artificial
human intervention. intelligence (usually machine
• Effective for automotive rule-based learning).
tasks that use structured digital • IA can automate complex
data. business processes that are
judgment-based and use
unstructured and non- digital
data sources.
BENEFITS
OF RPA

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