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.