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Robots are used in medicine because they are highly precision machines. By tooling with surgical instruments, they have been used in the field of robotic surgery to perform closed-chest, beating-heart surgery. The first generation of surgical robots aren't true autonomous robots that can perform surgical tasks on their own, but they are lending a mechanical helping hand to surgeons. These machines still require a human surgeon to operate them and input instructions. Remote control and voice activation are the methods by which these surgical robots are controlled.
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| Military robots are capable of replacing humans to perform many, if not most combat functions on the battlefield. Suggested by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, the presence of autonomous robots, networked and integrated, on the battlefield will take human out of the loop as early as 2025. Military robots may look like vehicles, airplanes, insects or animals or other objects in an attempt to camouflage or to deceive the adversary. Remarkable success has been achieved with unmanned aerial vehicles like the Predator drone, which are capable of taking surveillance photographs, and even accurately launching missiles at ground targets, without a pilot. On the ground, robots have been deployed as mine sweepers and for bomb disposal. Defence contractors in the USA are developing autonomous "robot soldiers", though currently it looks more like tanks than humans. |
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| Space robotics is generally divided into two main areas: robotic manipulators - such devices are deployed in space or on planetary surfaces to emulate human manipulation capabilities, and Robotic Rovers - they are deployed on planetary surfaces to emulate human mobility capabilities. |
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| In the automobile industry, robotic arms are used in diverse manufacturing processes including assembly, spot welding, arc welding, machine tending, part transfer, laser processing, cutting, grinding, polishing, deburring, testing, painting and dispensing. Robots have proved to help automakers to be more agile, flexible and to reduce production lead times. |
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| Application of clean room Robots in semiconductor manufacturing results in the reduction in scrap from broken wafers and chips, which translate into major cost savings in wafer handling. The avoidance of contamination and the savings in scrap from dropped wafers in machine loading and unloading can exceed millions of dollars. Typically, clean Room robots are used predominantly in machine loading, unloading, and parts transfer in the semiconductor industry, though, assembly, packaging, and testing processes are other application areas for clean room robots. |
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| While food and beverage applications represent a small fraction of industrial robotics installation, it is widely recognize as one of the fastest growing segments. The vast majority of robots in the Food & Beverage industry are found in the packaging area, with secondary functions such as case packing and palletizing dominating. High-speed Material Handling robotic arms and vision-guided systems are beginning to work alongside and-in many cases-instead of humans in food factories. |
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| Unlike the automobile industry where the use of robots is widespread, shipbuilding is more of a 'one-of-a-type' production. This makes efficient and cost-effective robotic implementation extremely difficult to achieve. |
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| Construction robots aim to improve the efficiency of work at construction sites. With proper planning and development, robots are used in the applications like inner pipe crawling, excavation, load transport, mining and submersion, bricklaying, earth work, foundatio06-Apr-2009t/steel-framework, prefabrication of reinforcement, pavement work and many others. Generally, where there are dangerous conditions or accessibility and/or space limitations that persist, robots will be used. |
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| Today, aircraft manufacturers are seeking automated solutions, spurred by the need to fabricate high-performance weapon systems at lower costs, apply lean manufacturing concepts, and achieve Six Sigma quality. A range of new automated and robotic production tools and technologies can be adapted to aircraft fabrication processes and methods. Painting, drilling, and composite fabrication are the best candidates for automation. Some examples of the robotics system using in the aerospace industry are: Robotic coating system (e.g. fuselage, airframe and component) and robotic water-jet coating removal. |
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