Glossary of Robotics Terms
There are a lot of terms and new words within robotics and coding which might make you scratch your head in wonder.
On this page, we have listed all the words we have come across in our learning which we thought needed more explanation to help us move along.
We hope this glossary will be helpful to you as well.
A
Android – an automaton made to look like a human being.
Artificial Intelligence – Pretending to be intelligent, faking it. Or more officially – Use of machines that have qualities that human brain has I.E ability to recognise or create images, solve problems and/or learn from data provided to them.
Autonomous – an autonomous machine or system is able to operate without being controlled directly by humans.
C
Chassis – the frame of a vehicle, usually including the wheels and engine, onto which a covering is attached/fixed.
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F
Feedback sensor: the mechanism through which environmental data is fed back to the central processing unit, which uses it to adjust the robot’s motions.
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I
Input device: One of many different devices which allow a human to interact with a machine like a computer or robot – including keyboard, mouse, touchpad.
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R
Robot – A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
S
Sensor – a mechanical device that responds to a physical stimulus, sending the machine a signal to adjust its own position and tasks based on this stimuli.
T
Touch sensor: A sensor which measures physical contact with an object