FOUNDATIONS OF THE ROBOTICS

                                      INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

Robotics is a discipline dedicated to the study, design, realization and management of robots.

The first requirement in the conceptualization of robotics, then seems clear: the definition

Contextualized robot in all areas under a current perspective.

The analysis of the historical evolution, will deserve a specific treatment in a section

later. Robotics is characterized by a certain conceptual dispersion, which has led to

Some definitions throughout the history, on the one hand the Webster dictionary defines a

Robot as: "An automatic device that performs functions normally assigned to the

Human beings, or a machine in the form of a human being "

The term robot, comes from the Czech word robota, which means 'obligatory work' and was

Employed for the first time in the play of 1921 R.U.R. (Universal Robots of Rossum)

By the Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek.

Since then the word robot has been used to refer to a machine that performs

To help people or perform difficult or unpleasant tasks

Robotics is an area of ​​mechatronics applied, this

Confluence of several areas: mechanics, electricity, electronics, automation and informatics,

That make the study of a robot enormously attractive to specialists in

Any of them.

Incorporating new arguments related to robotics and some new areas

Important scientific developments developed today as Artificial Intelligence, is

Possible to consider a new concept of robot as the closest to our

"Robot is all that device that acts in a real environment and that is capable of

Establish some kind of intelligent connection between perception and action, "which integrates all

The types of robots developed in all areas such as: scientific exploration,

Industrial and humanoid.