ROBOTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does robotics mean? 

• ROBOTICS (noun)
  The noun ROBOTICS has 1 sense:

1. the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots

  Familiarity information: ROBOTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROBOTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("robotics" is a kind of...):

AI; artificial intelligence (the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "robotics"):

animatronics (the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland))

telerobotics (the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance)

 Context examples 

UniSA's Dr Tobias Loetscher says the study provides new links between previously under-investigated eye movements and personality traits and delivers important insights for emerging fields of social signal processing and social robotics.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These discoveries will provide a new paradigm for using reconfigurable and programmable metasurfaces in many fields, from space exploration and robotics to medicine and microelectronics.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

This phenomenon was first described in 1978 by robotics professor Masahiro Mori, who coined an expression in Japanese that went on to be translated as the ‘Uncanny Valley’.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

Robot scientist Eve was developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth, and Cambridge to automate – and hence speed up – the drug discovery process by automatically developing and testing hypotheses to explain observations, run experiments using laboratory robotics, interpret the results to amend their hypotheses, and then repeat the cycle, automating high-throughput hypothesis-led research.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

A branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the identification of visual or audio patterns by computers.For the computer to recognize the patterns, the patterns must be converted into digital signals and compared with patterns already stored in memory.Some uses of this technology are in character recognition, voice recognition, handwriting recognition, and robotics.

(Pattern Recognition, NCI Thesaurus)

Yaser Sheikh, associate professor of robotics, said these methods for tracking 2-D human form and motion open up new ways for people and machines to interact with each other, and for people to use machines to better understand the world around them.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dan Finotello, a program director in NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate adds, This polymer integrates fast reversible and reprogrammable actuation, shape locking and untethered operation for applications in soft robotics, morphing structures, and deformable electronics, especially for designing active and adaptive guidewires, catheters and stents that could potentially enable the next generation of biomedical devices for minimally invasive operations.

(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)