1. Zhuoyu Jin Joyce
2156219

2. CONTENT
 Definition of Robotics
 History of robots
 Advantages and disadvantages
 Future

3. WHAT IS ROBOTICS
 Programmable, automatic industrial machines
(Kirkpatrick,2013)
 Type of robots
Automatic Sweeper Automatic Car
Space Detector Bomb Detector

4. HISTORY
 ‘ROBOT’ was from Czech word.
 ‘ROBOTICS’ was first used in Runaround in 1942 by
Isaac Asimov.
 The first robot called Unimate was produced in 1956.

5. Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages Disadvantages
Improve effectiveness of production
without any pay.
Bring risk for people & spend extra
money in repairing them.
Replace humans in doing lots of hard
and risky work. (detectors)
Reduce job opportunities to people &
communication time.
Bring convenience for people.
(housework robots)
Environmental issues.
(heavy metals)

6. Future
http://youtu.be/sUsjW1gdPnY

8. References
 Kirkpatrick, K. (2013). Legal issues with robots.
Communication of the ACM, 56(11), 17-19.
 Communications of the ACM. (2012). 55(5), 12-13.
 BBC News. (2014). Softbank unveils ‘human-like’ robot
pepper. BBC News Technology.
 http://www.slideshare.net/vundavallishreya

9. Thank you