Robotics is the science and technology of designing, making, and applying robots, including theory from many contributing fields. A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent. It is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.
The following list is provided as an overview of and topical guide to robotics:
Importance of robotics
Branches of robotics
Contributing fields
Additionally, contributing fields include the specific field(s) a particular robot is being designed for. Expertise in surgical procedures and anatomy, for instance would be required for designing robotic surgery applications.
Robots
Types of robots
Industrial robots
Main article: Industrial robotMobile robots
Main article: Mobile robotReal-life cyborgs
Main article: CyborgSpecific robots and robot models
Main article: Robot Hall of FameRobotic toys and toy robots
Notable Robots in fiction
Main articles: List of fictional robots and androids and Cyborgs in fictionRobotic subsystems
- Robotic arm
Specific robotic subsystems
- Shadow Hand
History of robotics
General robotics concepts
Robotics software projects
Main article: Robot software
- DROS, Dave's Robotic Operating System, free software for the robotics researcher or hobbyist
- MARIE - Mobile and Autonomous Robotics Integration Environment, a free software tool for building robotics software systems
- anyKode Marilou, an integrated graphics environment for robotics prototyping, physics simulations and robots programming
- Microsoft Robotics Studio
- The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) - An open-source set of C++ libraries and applications which cover grabbing, visualizing and manipulating datasets, particle filter and Kalman filter-based SLAM, linear algebra, robotics sensors and MATLAB-like plot rendering.
- OROCOS - Open Robot Control Software project, a free software toolkit for realtime robot arm and machine tool control
- Player/Stage Project, a free software robot interface and simulation system, used for robotics research and teaching worldwide
- RoboRealm, free robot vision software
- Robot Intelligence Kernel from Idaho National Laboratory
- URBI - Universal Real-Time Behavior Interface
- Webots, a professional robot simulator used widely in academic and education
- YARP - Yet Another Robotic Platform, an open source platform for research in robotics
Robotics tradeshows and conventions
- Robonexus
Robotics contests and competitions
Main article: Robot competitionRobotics companies and brands
Robotics agencies, organizations, schools, and education programs
Robotics periodic publications
Robotics scholars
- Isaac Asimov
Leaders in robotics
Main article: RoboticistRobotics lists
- List of inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame
- List of fictional robots and androids
See also
- Submarine
- Technology
- Technological singularity
External links
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- Adaptive Robotics Software at the Idaho National Laboratory
- Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)
- Automata and Art Bots mailing list home page
- Automonous Robots Journal
- " The Basics - Robot Software ". Seattle Robotics Society.
- Beginner's Tutorial for Building a Robot
- Creators of robots for people Autonomous mobile robots.
- DARPA Grand Challenge
- DIY Learning robot Build your own autonomous learning programmable robot.
- FSI-All Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament
- Grape - Graphical Programming Environment for embedded controllers and qfix robots.
- Guarding the fence - 2 Autonomous combat vehicles developed in Israel - An article
- Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC)
- " Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS)". Georgia Tech Research Corporation.
- Cognitive Robotics Lab of Juergen Schmidhuber at IDSIA and Technical University of Munich
- qfix robot kits Robot kits for hobby and education
- RoboCupJunior
- RobotRoom
- " Robot software components ". Sluggish Software.
- Robot Tutorials for Beginners
- " Rossum Project ". G.W. Lucas.
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Robot-Sumo Competition
- " Tech Database "
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