| Science can make robots virtually indestructible, | | | | assembly and processing. |
| omniscient and powerful. Daily human preoccupation | | | | Locomotion |
| and toil will rarely need such robotic qualities. Robots of | | | | Short of saying mobility, current robots have restricted |
| today are used in various purposes and undesirability is | | | | movements and most robotic applications in |
| nowhere in that level. Powerful may be correct as | | | | manufacturing plants are stationary. But there are |
| most are AI-based or have inferential engines to assist | | | | robots that move on motorized wheels with |
| in decision making processes while many others are | | | | rudimentary GPS-like direction finding facility to move |
| powerfully built in factories and science labs dealing | | | | around and deliver things that humans may consider |
| with toxic substances or adverse conditions that pose | | | | menial. Sophisticated hospitals employ such robots to |
| physical hazards to the frail human body, but hardly | | | | deliver medication to patients in every floor and can |
| omniscient. | | | | interface with computer-controlled elevators to bring |
| Interactivity | | | | them to different floors in the building as needed. |
| Robotic contraptions work on programmed instructions | | | | Other modes of locomotion include flight extensively |
| that depend on its interaction with external stimulus. | | | | used in the military service like the unmanned RQ-4 |
| Sensory perceptions become their means for data | | | | Global Hawk drone aircraft used for enemy |
| input employing electrodes that give them the tactile | | | | surveillance and bombing missions which serve the |
| sensory ability to determine size, form, shape, | | | | same purpose as targeting missiles but are able to |
| temperatures and consistencies of substances. Tiny | | | | return after their missions are done. They fall in the |
| cameras can give them visual acuity while | | | | category of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAV which |
| microphones impart aural sensitivity to recognize | | | | are basically like your remote controlled toys but have |
| speech patterns in spoken commands. | | | | significantly longer control ranges. |
| But interactivity won't be complete with a response | | | | Autonomy and Control |
| these stimuli. The most common is in performing tasks | | | | What puts robotic application at a higher plane than |
| specific to their purpose like those assembly robots in | | | | mere computers is its cognitive abilities to have |
| manufacturing plants. Some experimental robots do | | | | near-autonomy to execute tasks based on immediate |
| have speech capability but the more mundane robotic | | | | input with little or no human intervention. In short, they |
| application just mimics the same I/O interfaces of | | | | can act on their own guided only by the programmed |
| computers like printers and displays. | | | | directives that focus robots to specific tasks. |
| Manipulation and Mobility | | | | Hence, robotics in hospitals are expected to deliver |
| Being able to recognize objects, pick them up, handle, | | | | medication in the room and floor it is tasked to do but |
| process and deliver them is another major trait of | | | | will refrain form doing it if there are no attending nurses |
| robotic contractions. Mechanical hand-like | | | | in the room. Robots in warfare can be expected to |
| servo-controlled grippers from simple tong-like | | | | bomb their targets but not adjacent non combative |
| structures, vacuum-suction grippers to more complex | | | | areas. Even in complex assembly plants, robots have |
| gripping devices are essential in many robotic | | | | complete autonomy to work within the parameters |
| applications that require handling of objects for | | | | defined for their tasks. |