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 robot

Mobile robots

Main article: Mobile robot

Real-life cyborgs

Main article: Cyborg

Specific robots and robot models

Main article: Robot Hall of Fame

Robotic toys and toy robots

Notable Robots in fiction

Main articles: List of fictional robots and androids and Cyborgs in fiction

Robotic 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 competition

Robotics companies and brands

Robotics agencies, organizations, schools, and education programs

Robotics periodic publications

Robotics scholars

  • Isaac Asimov

Leaders in robotics

Main article: Roboticist

Robotics 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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