Robotics
Robotics is overlapping with electronics, computing, artifical intelligence (AI), mechatronics, nanotechnology and bioengineering. Smart, mobile, unattended robots with AI and movement sensors are enhancing productivity at homes and workplaces.
Denmark is developing a shapeshifting robot made of modules. Each module has its own processors, sensors, actuators and batteries. The modules can attach and detach from each other so that the robot can change its form. Used in earthquake-affected sites, this robot can tranform into a crawler to climb over the debris, a snake to get through a hole or a coumn to hold up a collapsed building and protect a survivor.
Mighty mouse or m2, famours in USA for its heroics, is a remote-contrikked bomb-disposal robot with drills and robotic arms. It is being used for fixing problems in nuclear installations.
Robots perfoming assembly applications carry out welding, painting, ironing, assembly, pick and place, palletising, product inspection, and precision.
Robotic arms are being used to perform surgery on patients. A high-resoultion, 3D telescope on the robotic arm allows surgeons to see waht is going on. Seated at a console, the surgeon can remotely control the robotic arm to perform complex operations like making incisions, manipulating tissues or even suturing tissues.
