Let’s spend some time brainstorming robot functionality.
Fundamentally what can robots do?
- Move
- Pick up items
- Place Items
- Carry Items
- Manipulate items
Let’s look at each incrementally
- Move
- Wheels
- With two legs
- With more than 2 legs
- Fly
- Pickup Items
- Transport from one location to another
- Sort
- from a basket
- On a conveyer belt
- Grab from a shelf
- Lift from ground
- Place Items
- Into a bin
- Onto a shelf
- Onto the ground
- Carry Items
- In a hand
- In a basket
- On a platform
- Manipulate Items
- Cut
- Crush
- Unscrew
- Nail
Robots are either autonomous or remote controlled
What high level areas could robots work in?
- Manufacturing
- Specialized action on the assembly line
- Robot maintenance
- Automated Welding
- Painting
- Inspection
- Robotic Assembly
- Material Removal
- Financial
- Payment processing
- Point of Sale systems
- Utilities
- Tree Trimming Robot
- Construction
- Carry building materials
- Carry tools
- Transportation
- Autonomous vehicles
- Healthcare
- Check-in and administrative robot
- Nurse robot
- Blood pressure test
- Warehouse Management
- Unpack and pack boxes
- Transport boxes to other locations in a warehouse
- Deliver packages to people at their homes
- Field Service
- Deliver parts and assets
- Home Care and Maintenance
- Cook food
- Carry travel bags
- Take to and from washer machine and dryer
- Fold clothes
- Chop up food to store
- Vacuum floor
- Carry items to and from house
- Take out trash and recycling
- Sort items into boxes and store
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