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Jeff CicolaniBeginning Robotics with Raspberry Pi and Arduinohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3462-4_1

1. Introduction to Robotics

Jeff Cicolani1 
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Pflugerville, Texas, USA
 

The word robotics can mean a lot of things. For some people, it is anything that moves by itself; kinetic art is robotics. To other people, robotics means something that is mobile or something that can move itself from place to place. There is actually a field called mobile robotics ; automatic vacuum cleaners, such as a Roomba or a Neato, fall into this category. To me robotics falls somewhere in between kinetic art and mobile robotics.

A robot is technology that applies logic to perform a task in an automated manner. This is a fairly broad definition, ...

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