Almost anything. One definition of robot is "artificial agent" (a better definition is in the link below). Artificial just means someone made it, agent means it does something for someone (my favorite robot is the dishwasher - someone built it to wash dishes for me). Many people assume "agency" includes the ability to act by itself (autonomy), or at least look like it can. These days most of the really popular robots are exploring places people can't go yet (Voyager left the solar system not too long ago, Spirit and Opportunity are still running around Mars) and doing things too dangerous for humans to do safely (like hunting for roadside bombs in war zones or searching the bottom of the ocean). I used to work with a parts placer in an electronics assembly plant, it took very small parts from reels and bins and placed them on circuit boards. Some car manufacturers use big industrial robots for welding and lifting cars and trucks. Nanotechnology is finally catching on, with motors and wheels the size of atoms. I have seen pictures of remote control robots for doing surgery from somewhere outside the hospital, like from Another Country. Then there are the vacuuming robots. Anything you can build to do something for you is basically a robot. Oh yeah, don't forget battlebots! Some of us like the sound of smashing and tearing metal.
There are many uses of I robots. Some uses are for docking stations. Other uses are for products such as a robot vacuum, or a robot nurse in hospitals!
What makes a robot is its computer brain and its way to work in its enviornment. It uses its brain to interact with its surroundings.
Negative uses would be, If you get a robot to do everything for you them you will grow lazy and also a malfunction may occur in the robot and you wont know how to fix it. Use commen sense and you will come up with nagative uses other than the ones im mentioning. Also, Some people may use a robot to do a crime or hurt someone. :)
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I have a disadvantage, Uses lots of energy
Tony calls his helper robot "Dummy", which, knowing Stark, could very well be his name. Industrial robots such as this do exist. However, Dummy has a level of artificial intelligence that I doubt exists yet. So yes & no. Tony also uses a computerized butler he calls Jarvis. We're nowhere near that level of AI or speech recognition or speech synthesizing, so that is not real.
Buy a pink doll and put a solid state recorder inside it with your message already programmed in. And technically, that isn't a robot, it's simply a doll with a recorder inside it. A robot is an automated device, controlled by some type of computerized controller, capable of performing basic tasks, autonomously.
Google is not a robot in the traditional sense; it neither looks or operates like a robot (arms, legs, moving parts, etc.) But in computer language, Google's system is a "bot" or many "bots" designed per certain algorithms to locate and deliver computerized information. For example, a Google Bot crawls websites, indexing pages and links on those pages, creating what might be thought of as an enormous computerized "spider web" of data. Computer programming controls the bots Google uses, so to automate repetitive, large, and often boring tasks and to deliver high accuracy in the bot's performance. So Google is also a huge computer network, a maze, with servers and redundant backup systems. Google as a company also means humans, from upper management to its employees, and including stock holders. So Google is not a robot, though many of the tasks Google performs are handled by Bots which are programmed and overseen by human beings.
Robot sensors detect different things and send different amounts of electricity to the Robot's controller board to tell their findings. Then the controller board uses these different amounts of electricity to interact with its surroundings. Example: Lets say you have a robot that is made to follow light. Lets say your robot has 3 light sensors. One in the front of your robot one on the right and one on the left side. The sensors will detect how much light is on the front, right, and left sides and send this data to the controller board. Then the controller board uses this data to tell the robot with direction to go.
Google uses it for their Android operating system.
Humanoid robot are the instrument scientist uses nw a days..
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