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We introduce the topic of robotics, the recent history, why we need robots and the future of robots.

Much of what we know about robots comes from fiction. Let’s look at fictional robots and the underlying reality.

We consider a robot with three joints that moves its end-effector on a plane.

We consider the simplest possible robot, which has one rotary joint and an arm.

For real robots such as those with 6 joints that move in 3D space the inverse kinematics is quite complex, but for many of these robots the solutions have been helpfully derived by others and published. Let’s explore the inverse kinematics of the classical Puma 560 robot.

In this mini-documentary we look at a diverse range of real-world robots, discuss what they do and how they do it.

For a simple 2-link planar robot we introduce and derive its Jacobian matrix, and also introduce the concept of spatial velocity.

We consider a robot with four joints that moves its end-effector in 3D space.

We consider a robot, which has two rotary joints and an arm.

Robots today are ubiquitous in manufacturing but they can do much, much more.