What makes a robot? What is a robot? Well the term robot originally comes from Russia. A Czeck playwright, Karek Capek wrote a play in 1921 (translated in 1923) called "R.U.R.:Rossum's Universal Robots.". The word he adapted is the Czech word "robota" meaning "servitude" or "statute labour". Although the play, which was only run of the mill Science Fiction, faded into history, the word he used remain and now standard in most languages, and …showed first 75 words of 712 total…

…showed last 75 words of 712 total…in robotics is almost always a combination of different electro-mechanical devices. Sometimes robots use hydraulics, particularly in the car building industry. The electro-mechanical devices range from `muscle-wires' to inexpensive RC-servo and motors. There are several types of motors available including: · Synchronous · Stepper · AC servo · Brush less DC servo · Brushed DC servo These are then connected to cable, gears, axles, pulleys and alike to give the robot movement, and the ability to interact with it's environment.