Robotics 1 quiz

The first industrial robot was installed

at a U.S. automative plant in 1961.

The addition of robots in the workforce

does not necessarily mean that jobs have been lost

Robots can perform work less

expensively and have taken jobs away from humans

In 1954 the

first industrial robot was patented in 1954.

Third generation of industrial robots

include harvesting and cell handling robots

Hard automation works well when a very

large number of items are to be produced over a long period of time.

Joseph Engelberger once said

Nobody needs a robot. There isn't anything a robot can do that a willing human being can't do better.

SCARA stands for

Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm

Flexing Automaton

a machine that can be reprogrammed to meet changing manufacturing needs, belongs int eh category of manufacturing.

Anthropomorphic

a machine that has a humanlike form.

Intelligent Robot

a machine that uses sensors to detect changes in the work environment.

RIA definition of an industrial robot:

an industrial robot is a machine, is reprogrammable, is flexible, and has a multifunction manipulator.