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Fully Autonomous Robots (Humanoid)
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The humanoid autonomous type of robots are used in hazardous material handling,
bomb disposal
in military operations, human interaction for entertainment purposes and radioactive
enviromnent operations. These type of robots have all types of sensors,
such as vision, tactile, obstacle avoidance and complex
AI
based algorithms to operate autonomously. As these require enormous computing
power, they are coming of age day after day with high performance computers and
memory
processing chips of the present day.
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During the mid to late 1980's, the computer hardware was in its infancy. During
my graduate studies on AI, machine vision, robotics, and manufacturing automation,
the research was limited to the computing power of
x86 family of Intel chips based
hardware used in robots (or
ASIC
with similar capacity) and its accessory devices. The advances in chip
technology [1] over the years has enhanced the robotics and related technologies.
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Robots in Medicine (surgery)
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These are robots that are used in surgery, that perform delicate surgery with high
precision along with surgeons. Due to their high precision vision and 3D mapping
of complex contours, they will soon be able to push humans to supervisorly roles
and perform autonomous robotic surgery.
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Robots in Oceanographic Exploration
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Submersible robots are used to explore the ocean, under water vegetation,
rescue operations, sunken objects and for various types of Oceanographic
research. Some are fully autonomous with remote human programming/control
and some on-board human operators.
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Robots in Computer Applications
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In computer applications, robots are used as data robots to monitor data
I/O in or across systems,
anomolies, and detect fraud. Many
HRMS systems use application robots to analyze
applicant resumes to validate their candidacy (educational background,
skills, experience) for the job they apply for.
Processes are also automated in the form
code-robots that monitor system/application health.
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Robots in Internet
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In web applications robots are
known as web crawlers and web spiders. They are used to assist search engines
with traffic monitoring, indexing, execute scripts, automate manual processes.
Hackers have exploited them for fraudulent activities too. Sometimes the web
traffic can be only due to robots. This has lead to websites requiring
Captcha entry to ensure it is
a human interaction versus robotic traffic.
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