Test Flashcards
Robots in plays and movies are usually…
Harmful
“Robot” was introduced in…
1920
Human appearing robots are called…
Androids
Names given to recent period where there has been a great increase in the development and use if robots are:
Robot Age, Robot Era, Robot Revolution
The technology of robots is called…
Robotics
Robots help us in _____ like computers help us in _____.
Industry, Business
Robotics have grown tremendously due to improvements in _____ and _____.
Microelectronics and computers
Robot “arms and hands” are called ________ and do not resemble ________.
Industrial manipulators and romantic androids
Automatic machines can only preform ______ jobs.
Specific
The use of automatic machines is called _______ automation.
Hard
Robots can be _______ to preform many jobs.
Reprogrammed
The flexibility of the industrial robot has created ______ automation and has made the ______ manufacturing system or _______ possible.
Soft, flexible, and FMS
This new technique permits multiple products to be produced using the same ______.
Robot
List four benefits the industrial robot gives.
Frees worker from Dirty, Boring, Dangerous, and Heavy Labor
List the major work problem created
Unemployment
Four benefits that industrial robot gives
Improved management control and productivity, high quality products, reduced cost, work tirelessly day and night
Benefit industrial robots give to country
Economic Advantage
Robots used in non-industrial applications are called ______.
Service Robots
Difference in appearance to industrial manipulator
Mobile
Three present uses of service robots:
Entertainment, Education, and Personal
One of the next breakthrough in robotics will be the ______.
Domestic Robot
Father of Robotics
Joseph Engelberger
When was first robot created?
1961
