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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


                 Since technological advancements there are many areas where these robots are being used.
                 Usually robots are assigned to specific tasks so 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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