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Key Difference Between Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Robots:

Robots are programmable machines specifically programmed to carry out a complex series of tasks without any human intervention. People mostly see robots in movies so they have a little sense of what real robots do or look like. But everyone knows the Terminator, Star Wars, Matrix, etc. Non-classified YouTube videos featuring various versions of robots like a robotic humanoid or a robotic cheetah for that matter, are presenting a different prospective on robotic science. However, on the contrary, robots are becoming more capable and more diverse than ever. Robots are often characterized by their capabilities in performing dull to dangerous tasks, easily and without needing humans to perform them.



Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision. As the hype around AI has accelerated, vendors have been scrambling to promote how their products and services use AI. Often what they refer to as AI is simply one component of AI, such as machine learning. AI requires a foundation of specialized hardware and software for writing and training machine learning algorithms. No one programming language is synonymous with AI, but a few, including Python, R and Java, are popular.



Difference Between Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Robots

Artificial Intelligence

Robotics is the Machine designed to execute one or more simple to complex tasks automatically with speed and precision

AI is a kind of computer program that demonstrates some of the behaviors associated with human intelligence

Robotics is s field of artificial intelligence that makes use of AI to improve their functions

AI is the bridge between human intelligence and machine learning

Robots are autonomous or semi-autonomous machine that use computer systems for their control and information processing

AI is human intelligence that complements human mind to enhance its ability ti perform tasks and it self improves

Robots are used in assembly and parking, space and earth exploration, medical surgical applications, laboratory research , weaponry and more.

AI are used in Netflix, Google's DeepMind, Apple's , Siri, Spotify and games such as Tic-Tac-Toe etc.

Robots are programmable and interact with the surrounding using sensors. They might be automatic or semi-automatic depending on the area of their application.

AI is a science that depends on machine learning and algorithms. If explained in limited words, AI works on its own decision making and reasoning.


Artificially Intelligent Robots

There are specific examples of artificially-intelligent robots:


1. Cobot (Non-artificially-intelligent)

A Cobot can do work by itself after programming. It does not need any human help until turned off. Cobot is a collaborative robot and in this case, will do a work assigned repetitively as it is a non-AI robot.


2. Cobot (Artificially-intelligent)

The Cobot mentioned above can be further developed by the addition of AI. The addition of AI adds a perception to the robot. It also adds decision-making instincts that need a decorated algorithm. For example, a heat receptor to prevent the robot from entering furnaces while operating as the robot would be handling heat-sensitive items. Also, a camera can add a perceptional vision to the robot. This will prevent it from colliding from different elements in the factory.


3. Software Robot

A software robot is a computer program which performs a task on various software and websites by itself. They are also known as bots as they have no existence in reality and are actually computer programs. For example, a web-crawler scans the website and categorizes them for search. It might include AI engines for better performance.




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