Course: Begin Robotics

Before you get started on your first simulation, watch this video to see how ERIC, the University’s very own mobile robot, responds to simple commands embedded within a computer program. …

We now have an idea about robots – different types and different things they can do. We now want to introduce some of the robots you will see in this …

Now let’s meet some of the robots here at the University of Reading. This video features some of our earliest robots along with a few newer ones including ERIC, the …

As we have said, interaction between humans and robots is important – and it is worth considering therefore the extent to which it is worth making robots appear like humans. …

Clearly there are many types of robots and lots of areas where they can be used. Typical applications of robots are: Industrial – the main use of robots for many …

Robots can be used in many applications, for which, somewhere in the past, humans were used. What are the advantages? In many situations robots can increase productivity, efficiency, quality and …

An important aspect of our approach to robots is their interaction with the world in which they exist and with others – particularly humans. Currently, in practice, all real robots …

For many years, robots were considered to be industrial devices used to weld cars, for instance. More recently, we have seen various mobile devices, such as the Mars Rover, used …

Robotics is a broad topic which can include mechanical devices, sometimes resembling humans, or software entities. Generally such ‘robots’ can be set to perform one or more specific tasks. In …