05-02-2013, 09:36 AM
ROBOTICS REPORT
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WHY ROBOTICS
Robotics is a multi-disciplinary tool that is being increasingly used by over 5,000 schools worldwide to motivate, excite and inspire children about math and science.
Robotics inspires students to make connections across several disciplines rather than learning topics in isolation as it combines mechanical, electronic, electrical and programming skills. Students are motivated to learn by creating their own robotic devices, while at the same time gain a deeper understanding of interdisciplinary fields of study. In addition, robotics appeals to a broad range of students and allows multiple points of access to science and technology for a variety of learners.
Robotics is already playing a very pivotal and cutting edge role in diverse sectors such as manufacturing, avionics, medicine, defense, automobile, and entertainment to name a few.
Benefits of Robotics Education
• Teaches through discovery (Cause and Effect learning)
• Numeracy Competence with numbers and measures
• Gives visual grasp of math and science
• Builds logical thinking
• Brings out innovation and creativity
• Enhances problem solving skills
• Develops teamwork
• Helps in absorbing future technologies with ease
• Self-Management
Virtual Robots
• Virtual robots don’t exits in real life. Virtual robots are just programs, building blocks of software inside a computer. A virtual robot can simulate a real robot or just perform a repeating task. A special kind of robot is a robot that searches the World Wide Web. The internet has countless robots crawling from site to site. These WebCrawler’s collect information on websites and send this information to the search engines.
Another popular virtual robot is the chatterbox. These robots simulate conversations with users of the internet. One of the first chatter bots was ELIZA. There are many varieties of chatter bots now, including E.L.V.I.S.
Market evolution
Today's market is not fully mature. One or more software compatibility layers have yet to emerge to allow the development of a rich robotics ecosystem (similar to today's personal computers one). The most commonly used software in the robotics research are Free Software solutions such as Player/Stage or cross-platform technologies such as URBI. Microsoft is currently working in this direction with its new proprietary software Microsoft Robotics Studio. The use of open source tools helps in continued improvement of the tools and algorithms for robotic research from the point one team leaves it.
Conclusion
Today we find most robots working for people in industries, factories, warehouses, and laboratories. Robots are useful in many ways. For instance, it boosts economy because businesses need to be efficient to keep up with the industry competition. Therefore, having robots helps business owners to be competitive, because robots can do jobs better and faster than humans can, e.g. robot can built, assemble a car. Yet robots cannot perform every job.