Robotics

    Robotics is the branch of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, and computer science, which deals with the design, construction, operation, structure, manufacture, and application of robots.1​2​ Robotics combines various disciplines such as mechanics, electronics, computer science, artificial intelligence, control engineering and physics.3 Other important areas in robotics are algebra, programmable automata, animatronics and state machines, and is also used as a teaching aid.4 The term robot was popularized with the success of the work R.U.R. (Universal Robots Rossum), written by Karel Čapek in 1920. In the English translation of that work, the Czech word robota, which means forced labor or worker, was translated into English as robot.5 Advances in robotics have shown that there are robotic devices that can move and interact with their environment based on the enormous availability of precise sensors and high-performance motors, and the development of complex algorithms that allow mapping, locating, planning displacements and orientation