Robots
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What is A Robot
Today, the word "robot" is harder to define because of new designs and
technology.
Around 1981, the members of the Robot Institute of America, held a
meeting to develop a definition of an industrial robot. The only thing
that changes when a robot is reassigned is its program of instructions.
In modern robots, programmable microprocessors control all the robot's
movements and actions. An
operator moves the robot's hand through all of the desired motions manually
with his own hand. Some of these joints swivel in smooth arcs mimicking
the behavior of the human shoulder, wrist, and elbow. Flexible tubes
carried the pressurized substances to the joints.
In factories today, industrial robots perform such tasks as welding,
machine loading and unloading, material handling, spray finishing,
assembly, and machine applications. In nuclear power plants and other
facilities where radiation is hazardous to humans, robotic arms that are
partly machine and human controlled are used for maintenance, repair, and
waste removal. Similar arms on diving vehicles facilitate undersea salvage
and exploration by navies and offshore oil industry...