Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2005
Robotics: Achievements and Challenges
Peter Corke, CSIRO ICT Centre
The term robot was introduced in 1920 and robotic
technology is now 50 years old. Much has been achieved, but we are
still a very long way from the machines depicted in movies such as
"Star Wars" or "I Robot". Robots have had the greatest uptake in
factory environments and now perform a significant amount of the
labour involved in automobile manufacture. The frontiers for
robotics are now in areas such as driving outdoors (on the Earth or
on Mars), flying and operating underwater. New applications areas
are being developed such as personal assistance, medical
rehabilitation, surgery, mining, forestry, agriculture, cargo
handlling and many more. The robots are coming!
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