Nowadays, robots do a lot of different tasks in many fields. On this page, you will learn about the different types of robots there are and what they do.
Industrial Robots
Industrial robots are robots used in an industrial manufacturing environment. Usually these are articulated arms specifically used for welding, material handling, painting and others tasks.This robot type also includes some automated guided vehicles.
Domestic Robots
Domestic or household robots are mostly used at home. This type of robots includes many quite different devices such as robotic vacuum cleaners, robotic pool cleaners, sweepers, gutter cleaners and other robots that can do different chores. Also, some surveillance robots could be regarded as household robots if used in that environment.
Medical RobotsMedical robots are used in medicine and medical institutions. First and foremost - surgery robots. Also, some automated guided vehicles and maybe lifting aides are considered medical robots.
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Service RobotsService robots are robots that don’t fall into other types by usage. These could be different data gathering robots, robots made to show off technologies, robots used for research, etc.
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Military Robots
Military robots are obviously used in the military. This type of robots includes bomb disposal robots, different transportation robots, and reconnaissance drones. Often robots initially created for military purposes can be used in law enforcement, search and rescue and other related fields.
Entertainment Robots
Entertainment robots are obviously used for entertainment. This is a very broad category. It starts with toy robots such as Zoomer the robot dog or the running alarm clock and ends with real heavyweights such as articulated robot arms used as motion simulators.
Space RobotsSpace robots are all the robots used for space shuttles and adventures to mars and the moon. The following places use space robots: International Space Station, Canadarm that was used in Shuttles, as well as Mars rovers and other robots used in space.
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Competition RobotsCompetition robots are robots that we create. Line followers, sumo-bots, robots made with Legos, any robot used just for fun, and robots made for competition.
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Now, as you can see there are examples that fit into more than one of these types. For example, there can be a deep sea exploration robot that can gather some valuable information that can be used for military purposes. Basically, these are the main 'types' of robots an d what they do.
