Computer brains vs. Robot brains

Amine BENDAHMANE

PhD student in AI & Robotics

Mar. 2012

Simple line follower robot

Dec. 2012

Arduino robot with IR sensors to detect obstacles

What's the difference between a computer and a robot?

1- "A robot contains mechanics" ?

- a random friend

2- "A computer... can perform a very wide variety of tasks, but it doesn’t translate that into mechanical movement" ?

- a random person in Quora

3- "robots perform one specific function or related set of functions" ?

- a random person in Quora

4- "A robot is a physical machine that's usually programmable by a computer that can execute tasks autonomously or automatically by itself" ?

- Dr. Kate Darling
Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab

5- "a system that exhibits 'complex' behavior and includes sensing and actuation" ?

- Pr. Hanumant Singh Northeastern University

"Sense - Think - Act"
paradigm

"Sense - Think - Act"

"Sense - Think - Act"

"It is not a robot because humans operate it a lot of the time"

- Pr. Singh's students

Remote controlled

robots

6- "a physically embodied artificially intelligent agent that can take actions that have effects on the physical world" ?

- Anca Dragan

Assistant professor at UC Berkeley

Remember the smartlamp example

What is a computer?

- Von Neumann

architecture, 1945

so why do we call them "robots"?

Are robots just computers?

Is a robot necessarly

intelligent?

or can it be human operated?

Is that really a robot?

"Sense-Think-Act"?

Is the word "robot"
just marketing?

Does the definition of "robot" change...

A computer computes...

What does a robot?