Robots

Types of robots

Aerobot – apprentice able of absolute flight on added planets.

Android – humanoid robot. Apprentice akin the appearance or anatomy of a human.56

Automaton – aboriginal self-operating robot, assuming absolutely the aforementioned actions, over and over.

Autonomous car – car able with an autopilot system, which is able of active from one point to addition afterwards ascribe from a animal operator.

Cruise missile – robot-controlled guided missile that carries an atomic payload.

Cyborg – aswell accepted as a cybernetic organism, a getting with both biological and bogus (e.g. electronic, automated or robotic) parts.

Explosive ammunition auctioning apprentice – adaptable apprentice advised to appraise whether an article contains explosives; some backpack detonators that can be deposited at the article and activated afterwards the apprentice withdraws.7

Gynoid – humanoid apprentice advised to attending like a animal female.

Hexapod (walker) – A six-legged walking robot, appliance a simple insect-like locomotion.

Industrial apprentice – reprogrammable, multifunctional architect advised to move material, parts, tools, or specialized accessories through capricious programmed motions for the achievement of a array of tasks.8

Insect apprentice – baby apprentice advised to imitate insect behaviors rather than circuitous animal behaviors.7

Mobile apprentice – self-propelled and independent apprentice that is able of affective over a mechanically airy course.8

Prosthetic apprentice – programmable architect or accent replacing a missing animal limb.8

Service apprentice – machines that extend animal capabilities.8

Snakebot – apprentice or automated basic akin a barb or elephant's trunk, area abounding baby actuators are acclimated to acquiesce connected arced motion of a apprentice component, with abounding degrees of freedom. This is usually activated to snake-arm robots, which use this as a adjustable manipulator. A rarer appliance is the snakebot, area the absolute apprentice is adaptable and snake-like, so as to accretion admission through attenuated spaces.

Surgical apprentice – bound architect acclimated for keyhole surgery

Walking apprentice – apprentice able of locomotion by walking. Owing to the difficulties of balance, two-legged walking robots accept so far been attenuate and a lot of walking robots accept acclimated insect-like multilegged walking gaits.

editBy approach of locomotion

Mobile robots may be classified by:

The ambiance in which they travel:

Land or home robots. They are a lot of frequently wheeled, but aswell cover legged robots with two or added legs (humanoid, or akin animals or insects).

Aerial robots are usually referred to as unmanned aeriform cars (UAVs)

Underwater robots are usually alleged free underwater cars (AUVs)

Polar robots, advised to cross icy, abysm abounding environments

The accent they use to move, mainly:

Legged apprentice : human-like legs (i.e. an android) or animal-like legs.

Wheeled robot.

Tracks.9

editRobot apparatus and architectonics features

Actuator – motor that translates ascendancy signals into automated movement. The ascendancy signals are usually electrical but may, added rarely, be aeriform or hydraulic. The adeptness accumulation may additionally be any of these. It is accepted for electrical ascendancy to be acclimated to attune a high-power aeriform or hydraulic motor.78

Linear actuator – anatomy of motor that generates a beeline movement directly.

Delta apprentice – tripod linkage, acclimated to assemble fast-acting manipulators with a advanced ambit of movement.

Drive Adeptness – activity antecedent or sources for the apprentice actuators.8

End-effector – accent accessory or apparatus accurately advised for adapter to the apprentice wrist or apparatus ascent bowl to accredit the apprentice to accomplish its advised task. (Examples may cover gripper, spot-weld gun, arc-weld gun, spray- acrylic gun, or any added appliance tools.)8

Forward chaining – action in which contest or accustomed abstracts are advised by an article to intelligently acclimate its behavior.7

Haptic – concrete acknowledgment technology appliance the operator's faculty of touch. Aswell sometimes activated to apprentice manipulators with their own blow sensitivity.

Hexapod (platform) – adaptable belvedere appliance six beeline actuators. Generally acclimated in flight simulators and amphitheater rides, they aswell accept applications as a automated manipulator.

See Stewart platform

Hydraulics – ascendancy of automated force and movement, generated by the appliance of aqueous beneath pressure. c.f. pneumatics.

Kalman clarify – algebraic address to appraisal the amount of a sensor measurement, from a alternation of alternate and blatant values.

Klann bond – simple bond for walking robots.

Manipulator – gripper. A automated 'hand'.

Parallel architect – articulate apprentice or architect based on a amount of kinematic chains, actuators and joints, in parallel. c.f. consecutive manipulator.

Remote architect – architect beneath absolute animal control, generally acclimated for plan with chancy materials.

Serial architect – articulate apprentice or architect with a individual alternation kinematic alternation of actuators. c.f. alongside manipulator.

Muting – deactivation of a presence-sensing attention accent during a allocation of the apprentice cycle.8

Pendant – Any carriageable ascendancy accent that permits an abettor to ascendancy the apprentice from aural the belted envelope (space) of the robot.8

Pneumatics – ascendancy of automated force and movement, generated by the appliance of aeroembolism gas. c.f. hydraulics.

Servo – motor that moves to and maintains a set position beneath command, rather than continuously moving.

Servomechanism – automated accent that uses error-sensing abrogating acknowledgment to actual the achievement of a mechanism.

Single Point of Ascendancy – adeptness to accomplish the apprentice such that admission or apprentice motion from one antecedent of ascendancy is accessible alone from that antecedent and cannot be overridden from addition source.8

Slow Speed Ascendancy – approach of apprentice motion ascendancy area the acceleration of the apprentice is bound to acquiesce bodies acceptable time either to abjure the chancy motion or stop the robot.8

Stepper motor –

Stewart belvedere – adaptable belvedere appliance six beeline actuators, appropriately aswell accepted as a Hexapod.

Subsumption architectonics – apprentice architectonics that uses a modular, bottom-up architectonics alpha with the atomic circuitous behavioral tasks.

Teach Approach – ascendancy accompaniment that allows the bearing and accumulator of positional abstracts credibility accomplished by affective the apprentice arm through a aisle of advised motions.8

editSpecific robots

Aura (satellite) – automated aircraft launched by NASA in 2004 which collects atmospheric abstracts from Earth.7

Chandra X-ray Observatory – automated aircraft launched by NASA in 1999 to aggregate ample data.7

Robonaut – development activity conducted by NASA to actualize humanoid robots able of appliance amplitude accoutrement and alive in agnate environments to ill-fitted astronauts.

Unimate – the aboriginal off-the-shelf automated robot, of 1961.

editReal robots by region

editRobots from Australia

GuRoo –

UWA Telerobot –

Karl Stefanovic – KarlOS 3.1 (Karlbot Operating System)

editRobots from Britain

Black Knight –

eSTAR –

Freddy II –

George –

Shadow Hand –

Silver Swan –

Talisman UUV –

Wheelbarrow –

editRobots from Canada

Canadarm2 –

Dextre –

ANATROLLER ARI-100 –

ANATROLLER ARE-100 –

ANATROLLER ARI-50 –

ANATROLLER Dusty Duct Destroyer –

ANAT AMI-100 –

editRobots from China

FemiSapien –

Meinü apprentice –

RoboSapien –

Robosapien v2 –

RS Media –

Xianxingzhe –

editRobots from Croatia

DOK-ING EOD –

TIOSS –

editRobots from France

Digesting Duck –

Nabaztag –

Nao –

editRobots from Germany

Marvin –

Care-Providing Apprentice FRIEND –

editRobots from Italy

IsaacRobot –

Leonardo's apprentice –

editRobots from Japan

AIBO –

ASIMO –

Choromet –

EMIEW –

EMIEW 2 –

Enon –

Evolta –

Gakutensoku –

HAL 5v

HOAP –

KHR-1 –

Omnibot –

Plen –

QRIO –

R.O.B. –

SCARA –

Toyota Partner Apprentice –

Wakamaru –

editRobots from Mexico

Don Cuco El Guapo –

editRobots from the Netherlands

Adelbrecht –

Flame –

Phobot –

Senster –

editRobots from New Zealand

Trons, The –

editRobots from Portugal

RAPOSA –

editRobots from Qatar

Robot jockey –

editRobots from Russia (or above Soviet Union)

Lunokhod 1 –

Lunokhod 2 –

Teletank –

editRobots from South Korea

Albert Hubo –

EveR-1 –

HUBO –

MAHRU –

Musa –

editRobots from Spain

Maggie –

REEM-B –

Tico –

editRobots from Switzerland

Alice adaptable apprentice –

E-puck adaptable apprentice –

Pocketdelta apprentice –

editRobots from the United States of America

Albert One –

Allen –

ATHLETE –

Ballbot –

Beer Launching Fridge –

Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton –

BigDog –

Boe-Bot –

Coco –

Cog –

Crusher –

Dragon Runner –

EATR –

Elektro –

Entomopter –

Haile –

Hardiman –

HERO –

Johns Hopkins Beast –

Kismet –

Leonardo –

LOPES –

LORAX –

Nomad 200 –

Nomad departer –

Opportunity departer –

Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly –

Push the Talking Trash Can –

RB5X –

Robonaut –

Shakey the Apprentice –

Sojourner –

Spirit departer –

Turtle –

Unimate –

Zoë –

Pleo –

editRobots from Vietnam

TOPIO –

editInternational robots

European Automated Arm –

Mars Science Laboratory –

editFictional robots by region

editFictional robots from the United Kingdom

editFrom British literature

HAL 9000 (Arthur C. Clarke) –

editFrom British radio

Marvin the Paranoid Android (Douglas Adams) –

editFrom British television

Kryten (Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, David Ross, Robert Llewellyn) {Red Dwarf} –

Talkie Toaster – (Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, John Lenahan, David Ross) {Red Dwarf}

K-9 (Doctor Who) –

editFictional robots from the Czech Republich

editFrom Czech plays

Daemon – (Karel Čapek) {R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)}

Helena – (Karel Čapek) {R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)}

Marius – (Karel Čapek) {R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)}

Primus – (Karel Čapek) {R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)}

Radius – (Karel Čapek) {R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)}

Sulla – (Karel Čapek) {R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)}

editFictional robots from France

editFrom French ballets

Coppélia – (Arthur Saint-Leon, Léo Delibes) {Coppélia}

editFrom French literature

Hadaly – (Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam) {The Future Eve}

editFictional robots from Germany

editFrom German film

Maschinenmensch – (Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Brigitte Helm) {Metropolis}

editFrom German literature

Maschinenmensch – (Thea von Harbou)

Olimpia – (E. T. A. Hoffmann) {Der Sandmann}

editFictional robots from Japan

editFrom anime

Combattler V – (Tadao Nagahama, Saburo Yatsude) {Super Electromagnetic Robo Combattler V}

Daimos – (Tadao Nagahama, Saburo Yatsude) {Brave Leader Daimos}

Raideen – (Yoshiyuki Tomino, Tadao Nagahama) {Brave Raideen}

Voltes V – (Tadao Nagahama, Saburo Yatsude) {Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V}

editFrom manga

Astro Boy – (Osamu Tezuka) {Astro Boy}

Getter Robo – (Go Nagai, Ken Ishikawa) {Getter Robo}

Grendizer – (Go Nagai) {UFO Robo Grendizer}

Mazinger Z – (Go Nagai) {Mazinger Z}

Tetsujin 28 – (Mitsuteru Yokoyama) {Tetsujin 28 - Go!}

editFictional robots from the United States of America

editFrom American comics

Amazo – (Gardner Fox) {DC Comics}

Annihilants – (Alex Raymond) {Flash Gordon}

editFrom American film

C-3PO – (George Lucas, Anthony Daniels) {Star Wars}

ED-209 – (Paul Verhoeven, Craig Hayes, Phil Tippett) {RoboCop}

Gort – (Robert Wise, Harry Bates, Edmund H. North, Lock Martin) {The Day the Earth Stood Still}

R2-D2 – (George Lucas, Kenny Baker, Ben Burtt) {Star Wars}

Robby the Apprentice – (Fred M. Wilcox, Robert Kinoshita, Frankie Darro, Marvin Miller) {Forbidden Planet}

The Terminator – (James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd) {The Terminator}

editFrom American literature

Adam Link – (Eando Binder) {I, Robot}

Gnut – (Harry Bates) {Farewell to the Master}

Robbie – (Isaac Asimov) {I, Robot}

The Steam Man of the Prairies – (Edward S. Ellis) {The Steam Man of the Prairies}

Tik-Tok – (L. Frank Baum) {Ozma of Oz}

editFrom American television

Bender Bending Rodriguez – (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, John DiMaggio) {Futurama}

Cambot – Gypsy , Crow T. Robot, and Tom Servo (Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Bill Corbett, Josh Weinstein, Jim Mallon, Patrick Brantseg) {Mystery Science Theater 3000}

Data – (Gene Roddenberry, Brent Spiner) {Star Trek: The Next Generation}

Jenny Wakeman – (Rob Rezenti, Janice Kawaye) {My Life as a Teenage Robot}

Robot B-9 – (Irwin Allen, Robert Kinoshita, Bob May, Dick Tufeld) {Lost in Space}

Grounder and Scratch – (Phil Hayes, Gary Chalk ) {Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog}