Robotics Paper 2 practice

Robots are used in cases such as attaching machinery to cars.

a.) Define the term robot

A robot is a machine that can repeatedly perform tasks precisely.

b.) Describe two output devices that are necessary in a robot used for the manufacture of cars

One output device that would be necessary is a force-feedback processor. A robot must know how much force it must put on an object in order to lift it without either dropping it or crushing it, or else it could damage the part and thus damage the product, which would hurt the company and its profits. Another output device would be the mechanical arm that grabs the object. A robot has to have some kind of device that is capable of grabbing and lifting an object, otherwise its purpose, which is to lift objects and put them somewhere else, would not be performable, and thus the robot would be useless and the company would have wasted money on a robot that cannot perform the desired task.

c.) Explain why robots are often used in place of humans in the manufacture of cars

One reason that robots are more suitable is that robots do exactly what they are programmed to every time they do it. A human is progned to random error, which can cause a product to not function properly, whereas a robot, if programmed correctly, will perform the task the way they were designed to every single time. Another reason would be that robots do not have emotions or thought processes that are irrelevant to their job. Humans can get sidetracked, which causes their production speed to decline and possibly their quality to decline as well, whereas a robot will only do what it is told to do without distractions. A human may also begin to daydream or ponder something about their life outside of their job that may cause them to not pay attention to what they are doing. Robots do not have any emotions or anything else that would distract them from the task that they are programmed to do, meaning that robots would be consistently faster, while human production speed may decrease and increase randomly.