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    Take Off                                                       Century   #Technology Literacy
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                                                                                                 Skills
                        Tick ( ) the activities that you want the robot to help you do.

                        1.  Cooking food                           2.  Doing homework

                        3.  Cleaning room                          4.  Hurt feeling

                       WHAT ARE ROBOTS?

                  Robots are automatically operated machines that work in place of humans. Robotics is a branch
                  of engineering and science that deals with the design, construction and functioning of robots.

                  A robot is a type of automated machine that can execute specific tasks with little or no human
                  intervention and with speed and precision.

                                            Factbot

                                     The first industrial robot was introduced in the U.S. in the 1960s.

                       FIELDS WHERE ROBOTS ARE USED

                  Thanks to technological advancements, robots are now used in various fields. Usually robots
                  are assigned specific tasks. Let us now understand different fields where robots are used in
                  this chapter.

                  Security and Surveillance

                  Robots are being deployed as security guards to protect humans.
                  Flyability is world’s first collision-tolerant flying robot which can fly
                  safely close to people.

                                                                 Manufacturing
                                                                 Since 1960 the manufacturing industries are using

                                                                 robots  for  different  purposes.  Unimate  was  the
                                                                 first robot that joined the assembly line in 1961.

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