Robotics is a multidisciplinary field that combines aspects of mechanical and computer[1] science to create robots or automated machines. These machines are designed to perform specific tasks and are built using various components such as frames, electrical circuits, and software programs. They’re powered by different energy sources, including lead-acid batteries and solar panels, and their operation involves specialized functions such as actuation, sensing, manipulation, locomotion, and perception. Robotics has wide-ranging applications across sectors like manufacturing, transport, medicine, agriculture, mining, and space exploration. It’s a rapidly advancing field, with ongoing research and development aimed at creating robots that can assist humans in performing various tasks, particularly those that are hazardous, repetitive, or mundane.
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Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.
Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer science, robotics focuses on robotic automation algorithms. Other disciplines contributing to robotics include electrical, control, software, information, electronic, telecommunication, computer, mechatronic, materials and biomedical engineering.
The goal of most robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Many robots are built to do jobs that are hazardous to people, such as finding survivors in unstable ruins, and exploring space, mines and shipwrecks. Others replace people in jobs that are boring, repetitive, or unpleasant, such as cleaning, monitoring, transporting, and assembling. Today, robotics is a rapidly growing field, as technological advances continue; researching, designing, and building new robots serve various practical purposes.