Types of Robots.
Robots are divided into
two major group: industrial and domestic.
Both types have been
around since the 1950s.
These robots have made
life easier at the workplace and at home.
Since the introduction
of robots, humans have become more dependent on them for doing
household chores and helping complete industrial tasks quicker and
more efficient.
Industrial robots are
used in workplaces such as factories (car, computer, food etc.).
Industrial robots have
made work in places such as car factories a lot easier and faster,
making the industries boom.
They have various jobs
that need to be completed and for certain jobs they have various
forms.
Among industrial robots
there are such as:
Robotic
arms are used in assembly lines.
These
robotic arms are usually used in car factories to weld frames of cars
or to spray paint cars.
The
robotic arm is a very useful robot and is one of the most commonly
used industrial robots today;
Agricultural
robots are very new and sometimes do a farmer`s job of cutting
grass.
Agricultural
robots can navigate themselves using GPS (Global Positioning System)
and use cameras and sensors to find any weeds that may be around.
These
robots can cut grass at a predetermined length and usually do their
job on a daily or weekly basis.
Domestic
robots are robots that are used in the home.
They
mostly perform repetitive tasks on a daily basis.
Mowing
the lawn, scrubbing plates, cleaning up rooms, vacuuming floors and
doing chores that people may find to be hard and long to complete are
some of the various repetitive tasks domestic robot are programmed to
do.
There
are different classes of domestic robots: low level which is a basic
robot that can be used around the home, this can include
entertainment robots such as the popular “Robosapien”;
Care
and chore robots are used to do household chores such as cleaning,
washing plates and vacuuming floors.
As
examples of domestic robots one can mention the following ones:
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