COOK What s loo about Science Discover Robotics Douglas Hustad Lerner Publications Minneapolis
Chapter 1 ROBOTICS Robotics is the science of building machines that sense their environment and make decisions by themselves These machines are known as robots They come in many shapes and sizes Sometimes human operators control robots Other times the robots work entirely on their own Some robots can be controlled with laptop computers What two things are robots able to
People have long dreamed of machines that could replace human workers The philosopher Aristotle wrote about this in the 300s BCE In 1495 CE inventor Leonardo da Vinci drew sketches of a mechanical knight he imagined Modern engineers have rebuilt Leonardo's robot according to his original
