Robotics

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/robotics

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the interdisciplinary nature?Robotics integrates computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and AI
2. What is the historical milestone?The first industrial robot, Unimate, was deployed in the 1960s
3. What is a robot?A robot is a programmable machine that can do tasks by itself. It uses sensors to see and hear, and motors to move.
4. How do robots know what to do?Robots have sensors that gather information, a computer inside that thinks about the data, and then they use motors to act on that thinking.

Actuator: A component of a robot responsible for moving or controlling a mechanism or system.
Lidar: A remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure distances.
Machine Learning: A type of AI that allows computer systems to learn from data without being explicitly programmed.