1 What is a robot?
This chapter covers
- What robots are made of
- Why robots have so much potential
- Hardware and software components used by robots
Recently, the field of robotics has grown tremendously, with robots for consumer usage being increasingly replaced by those for industrial application. The hardware and software behind these robots have also become more accessible, and for this reason, these are exciting times to learn about robotics. This book employs the power of the Python programming language to bring a wide variety of robotics projects to life using software and hardware that embrace the open source philosophy. By the end of the book, you will learn how to build nine different robotics projects.
1.1 Why robots are amazing
Computers ...
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