Types of Robots

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There are a number of types of robotics that this TinkerBot site will try to cover in some detail.

Teleoperated/Tethered Robots

Teleoperated robots, tethered or not, are typically machines that move in a predefined pattern to perform a given task. Automobile assembly robots fit into this category. These machines are typically quite large, require line voltages to sustain motion, and can be quite strong. Many have more than one micro processor working together to help the process along.

Radio Controlled Robots

Radio controlled robots, as are typically seen on TV (see TLC Robotica, R2D2, Runaway and the like), are useful. The complexity of available, off the shelf radio control units, such as those from Futaba, allow a surprising number of motions to occur for relatively little money. Further, as these robots are typically never outside of the sight of their operators, the operators themselves become part of the robot, lending the most flexible computing engine known to help make the robot do what you want, namely the human mind.

Autonomous Robots

Fully Autonomous Robots are a rare breed. These machines are typically science fiction at this point, more than science fact. However, there have been a number of self controlled machines that I would personally put in this category. The Viking Landers on Mars, as well as the follow on Mars Pathfinder Robots where machines that could do quite a bit for themselves, in regards to their landing, operation, etc.

Given sufficiently narrowed operation criteria, even the micromice and the various BEAM robotics projects can be said to be autonomous. Each of these machines perform a given task without further human intervention.

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