Flashcards: Robotics

A vocoder (/ˈvoʊkoʊdər/, short for voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.

Radio control (often abbreviated to R/C or simply RC) is the use of radio signals to remotely control a device.

Robot Operating System (ROS) is a collection of software frameworks for robot software development, (see also Robotics middleware) providing operating system-like functionality on a heterogeneous computer cluster.

Kevin Warwick, FIET, FCGI (/ˈwɔːrɪk, ˈwɒr-/; born 9 February 1954) is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.

Masahiro Mori (森 政弘 Mori Masahiro, born 1927) is a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work on the emotional response of humans to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion and robots.

An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform.

A cyborg (short for "cybernetic organism") is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts.

A Radio-controlled helicopter (also RC helicopter) is model aircraft which is distinct from a RC airplane because of the differences in construction, aerodynamics, and flight training.

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) refers to the freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space.

An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required.

In robotic mapping, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of an agent's location within it.

The Goliath tracked mine - complete German name: Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath (Sd.Kfz. 302/303a/303b) - was a remote controlled German-engineered demolition vehicle, also known as the beetle tank to the Allies.

The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision is an unincorporated collaborative venture with funding of $25.

An automaton (pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒmətən/)(plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating machine, or a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions.

National Bird is a 2016 documentary film directed by Sonia Kennebeck with executive producers Wim Wenders and Errol Morris.

Alice Cares is a 2015 Dutch film directed by Sander Burger.

"Robot voices" became a recurring element in popular music starting in the second half of the twentieth century.

Rajko Tomović (1919-2001) was a Serbian scientist and he worked programs in robotics, information technologies in medicine, bio-medical engineering, rehabilitation engineering, artificial organs,and many other important disciplines that are reaching maturity today.

March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World (1997, hardcover), published in paperback as March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence (2004), is a book by Kevin Warwick.

Underwater robotics is a branch of robotics.

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is an international youth organization that operates the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST LEGO League, FIRST LEGO League Jr.

Ivar Mendez, M.D.

Roblog is a neologism for a blog written by a robot with no human intervention.

Prismizer (/ˈprɪsəmaɪzər/) is a new type of audio codec that sounds similar to a vocoder in that it synthesizes the human voice signal, but it retains the freshness of sound vibrations.

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Open Bionics, founded in 2014, is a UK based start-up company developing low-cost bionic hands.

CougarTech, FRC team 2228, is a FIRST Robotics Competition team that was founded in 2007, and is a school-based team from the Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District in Honeoye Falls, New York.

Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study.

The Robot Interaction Language (ROILA) is the first spoken language created specifically for talking to robots.

Corinne Danièle Goddijn-Vigreux, commonly known as Corinne Vigreux, (born 9 December 1964) is a French business executive and entrepreneur.