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The World of Robots

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Modern robots combine advanced mechanical, motion and task dexterity features with human-like cognition and intelligence capabilities. The development of intelligent and autonomous robots offers new opportunities, fears and ethical concerns for the society that have to be examined, evaluated and faced. This chapter navigates the reader to the world of modern robots, including the types of robots by kinematics structure, intelligence, autonomy, and applications (industry, medicine, society, space research, military).This tour is helpful for the discussion of the ethical issues of robots of the above types.

At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work.

Rod Grupen

From where I stand, it is easy to see the science lurking in robotics.

It lies in the welding of intelligence to energy. That is, it lies in intelligent perception and intelligent control of motion.

Allen Newel

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). The World of Robots. In: Roboethics. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21714-7_4

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