Engineering
Automaton
An automaton is a self-operating machine, or a machine or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a predetermined sequence of…
Subsumption architecture
Subsumption architecture is a reactive robotic architecture heavily associated with behavior-based robotics which was very popular in the 1980s and…
Behavior-based robotics
Behavior-based robotics (BBR) or behavioral robotics is an approach in robotics that focuses on robots that are able to exhibit…
Developmental robotics
Developmental robotics (DevRob), sometimes called epigenetic robotics, is a scientific field which aims at studying the developmental mechanisms, architectures and…
Hexapod robotics
A hexapod robot is a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs. Since a robot can be statically stable on…
Legged robot
Legged robots are a type of mobile robot which use mechanical limbs for movement. They are more versatile than wheeled…
Autonomous underwater vehicle
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot that travels underwater without requiring input from an operator. AUVs constitute part…
Swarm robotics
Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple robots as a system which consist of large numbers of…
Robotic spacecraft
A robotic spacecraft is an unmanned spacecraft, usually under telerobotic control. A robotic spacecraft designed to make scientific research measurements…
Microbotics
Microbotics is the field of miniature robotics, in particular mobile robots with characteristic dimensions less than 1 mm. The term…