A vision-guided robot (VGR) system is basically a robot fitted with one or more cameras used as sensors to provide a secondary feedback signal to the...

underwater vehicles can be guided by underwater acoustic positioning systems. Navigation systems using sonar have also been developed. Robots can also determine...

in the 1990s to several TV series worldwide. Cruise missile: a robot-controlled guided missile that carries an explosive payload. Cyborg: also known as...

An automated guided vehicle (AGV), different from an autonomous mobile robot (AMR), is a portable robot that follows along marked long lines or wires on...

or locomotion. Robotics engineers select actuators—such as electric motors, hydraulic systems, or pneumatic systems—based on the robot's intended function...

robots serve various practical purposes. Robotics usually combines three aspects of design work to create robot systems: Mechanical construction: a frame, form...

Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks...

autonomy. Most autonomously guided robots, such as the HelpMate hospital robot, also offer a manual mode which allows the robot to be controlled by a person...

industrial robotics with limited vision in potential capabilities. The program aimed to rectify this by accelerating robotics research at MIT over a five-year...

Robosquirrel refers to several versions of robotic squirrels developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis and San Diego State University...

Amazon Robotics LLC, formerly Kiva Systems, is a Massachusetts-based company that manufactures mobile robotic fulfillment systems. It is a subsidiary of...

Method for Robots Capable of Vision and Communication" (PDF). Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 54 (6). Elsevier: 461–471. doi:10.1016/j.robot.2006.02.005...

as a part of computer vision. Robot navigation sometimes deals with autonomous path planning or deliberation for robotic systems to navigate through an...

robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided...

January 1980, was the first company to market industrial robots with built-in machine vision. Its founders were Victor Scheinman, inventor of the Stanford...

control, and robot guidance, usually in industry. Machine vision refers to many technologies, software and hardware products, integrated systems, actions...

also known as vision-based robot control and abbreviated VS, is a technique which uses feedback information extracted from a vision sensor (visual feedback)...

An automated restaurant or robotic restaurant is a restaurant that uses robots to do tasks such as delivering food and drink to the tables and/or cooking...

to build better and faster systems and over time these systems were improved and revised to the point where a single robot is capable of running 24 hours...

robot may weld a pre-programmed position, be guided by machine vision, or by a combination of the two methods. However, the many benefits of robotic welding...

Octobot is a proof of concept soft-bodied autonomous robot. The project team included Harvard University faculty members Robert Wood and Jennifer A. Lewis...

itself, which the robot may even need to identify. For example, for more precise guidance, robots often contain machine vision sub-systems acting as their...

It was the most complex robot the studio had ever attempted as of 2001. Other contributors to the project include NevenVision, Inc., Toyota, NASA's Lyndon...

A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments...

on concepts in computational geometry and computer vision, and are used in robot navigation, robotic mapping and odometry for virtual reality or augmented...

known as lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), autonomous weapon systems (AWS), robotic weapons, killer robots or slaughterbots. LAWs may operate...

Termite-inspired robots or TERMES robots are biomimetic autonomous robots capable of building complex structures without a central controller. A prototype...

vision-based systems on consumer robots while commercial and industrial robots and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) tend to use laser-based systems....

provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems. These companies are principally FANUC Corporation...

Robot-assisted surgery or robotic surgery are any types of surgical procedures that are performed using robotic systems. Robotically assisted surgery was...