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Name: Kiran Jabeen Tutor: Justin Dean Date: 20/01/04 Course: Mechanical Engineering A robot can be defined as a self-controlled device, which consists of electrical or mechanical units. A robot comes to mind, and has been fictionally known as a mobile device that is humanoid in appearance and has a metallic structure. At present robots are not very humanoid, instead they are machines that run continuously and respond automatically to a users respond, and can be controlled by a human operator even from a great distance. The word robot comes from the Czech story/play and means 'worker'. Most scientists define a robot being a machine that is operated by a computer and is able to many different jobs. Like many other machines robots are there to make our work easier, which they can do by moving materials, tools or other objects through programmed actions. A robot can be programmed to perform certain tasks, that can...

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