A report on Robotics

FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), formerly known as FIRST Vex Challenge, is a robotics competition for students in grades 7–12 to compete head to head, by designing, building, and programming a robot to compete in an alliance format against other teams.

In robotics and mechanical engineering, on November 15, 2008, China's Technology Daily reported Dr. Li Hiu Yeung and his research group of the New Concept Aircraft (ZHUHAI) Co., Ltd. had recently successfully developed the Mechanical Gecko named "Speedy Freelander".

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) is a United States trade group organized to serve the robotics industry.

FANUC, a Japanese robotics company, has been operating as a lights-out factory since 2001.

The term is used in computational geometry, computer animation, robotics and computer games.

In robotics, EKF SLAM is a class of algorithms which utilizes the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for SLAM.

Since the early 1990s artificial intelligence and robotics researchers have developed robots which explicitly engage on a social level.

Research into robotics first began in the late 1970s, has resulted in the production of robots designed to perform a wide variety of computer aided manufacturing tasks, including diamond polishing, welding, packing, and building.

In computer animation and robotics, inverse kinematics is the mathematical process of calculating the variable joint parameters needed to place the end of a kinematic chain, such as a robot manipulator or animation character's skeleton, in a given position and orientation relative to the start of the chain.

The aim of the competition is to promote robotics and AI research by offering a publicly appealing – but formidable – challenge.