Robotics overview

- [Instructor] In this video we will take a quick overview … of the field of robotics. … Consider contemporary definition of robotics … before determining how robotics … is an enabler of business value. … Let's start by taking a quick look at where robotics … has come from and where it is heading. … If robotics are defined as machines that do work for humans, … then the first robot might be the Egyptian water clock … around 3000 BCE. … However, defining robots as machines doing human work … becomes difficult when we attempt … to distinguish robots from tools. … Thus the definition of machines doing human work … is simply too broad. … There is something distinctive about a robot and a tool … that needs to be captured in the definition. … Recently we have come to understand robots … as reprogrammable machines. … The most widely adopted software platform … is the Robot Operating System, or ROS. … ROS is an open source set of software libraries and tools … helping creators program and build …