A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Ī robot is a machine-especially one programmable by a computer-capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. The quadrupedal military robot Cheetah, an evolution of BigDog (pictured), was clocked as the world's fastest legged robot in 2012, beating the record set by an MIT bipedal robot in 1989.
For other uses of the term, see Robot (disambiguation).ĪSIMO (2000) at the Expo 2005 Articulated welding robots used in a factory are a type of industrial robot.
