Acadamics

Robot is an electromechanical device which is capable of reacting in some way to its environment, and take autonomous decisions oractions in order to achieve a specific task

Roboticists develop man-made mechanical devices that can move by themselves, whose motion must be modelled, planned, sensed,actuated and controlled, and whose motion behavior can be influenced by “programming”.

This definition implies that a device can only be called a “robot” if it contains a movable mechanism, influenced by sensing, planning,actuation and control components. Motors and actuators are the devices which make the robot movable. Motors and actuatorsconvert electrical energy into physical motion. The vast majority of actuators produce either rotational or linear motion.