The main aspects of robotics can be summarized below: 1. Topology There are so many existing and possible-in-the-future body types and topologies of a robot. The existing ones include: 1) wheeled unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), 2) track-chained UGVs, 3) biped, quadruped, and six-legged robots, 4) humanoids, 5) multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 6) flapping aerial …
As robotics is interdisciplinary, or in other words: a robot is built by involving various engineering skills and knowledge, here I will list several important knowledge and skills required for robotics by classifying them into their engineering branches. Knowledge and skills from mechanical engineering: The critical knowledge and skills include basic knowledge in kinematics and …
Probably quite many people, particularly common people (i.e. people not working in the field), have partial or incomplete understanding about robotics. Of course robotics is related to robots, a word coined in 1920 with meanings associated with labor and was firstly used to denote a fictional humanoid. Although a robot can refer to either a …
