Robotics engineering

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term in computer science

software and hardware with cognitive abilities similar to those of the animal or human brain

technology based on the ability to build structures to complex, atomic specifications by means of mechanosynthesis

matter which has the ability to change its physical properties in a programmable fashion, based upon user input or autonomous sensing

interdisciplinary research field studying the interaction between humans and robots

set of laws, rules, or principles, which are intended as a fundamental framework to underpin the behavior of robots designed to have a degree of autonomy

integrated circuit technology

right|400px|thumb|Superellipsoid collection with exponent parameters, created using POV-Ray. Here, e = 2/r, and n = 2/t (equivalently, r = 2/e and t = 2/n).

MAVLink or Micro Air Vehicle Link is a protocol for communicating with small unmanned vehicle. It is designed as a header-only message marshalling library. MAVLink was first released early 2009 by Lorenz Meier under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

geometry data for pathfinding

right|300px|thumb|Some superquadrics. In mathematics, the superquadrics or super-quadrics (also superquadratics) are a family of geometric shapes defined by formulas that resemble those of ellipsoids and other quadrics, except that the squaring operations are replaced by arbitrary powers. They can be seen as the three-dimensional relatives of the superellipses. The term may refer to the solid object or to its surface, depending on the context. The equations below specify the surface; the solid is specified by replacing the equality signs by less-than-or-equal signs.

branch of robotics that incorporates modular or behavior-based AI