Robotics
Technology Map Detailed Contents
November 2022
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
- Industrial Robots
- Advantages and Disadvantages
- Industrial-Robot Hardware
- Industrial-Robot Control Systems
- Industrial-Robot Programming
- Industrial-Robot Sensors
- Machine-Vision Systems
- Nonindustrial-Robot Technologies
- Nonindustrial-Robot Architecture
- Sensors for Nonindustrial Robots
- Motion Systems, Actuators, and Manipulators
- Power Technologies
- Communication Systems
- Control Systems and Robot Software
- Collaborative Robotics
- Neural and Bioelectric Interfaces
Commercial Development Parameters
- Industrial Robots
- Demand Factors
- General Constraints
- Synergistic Technologies
- Competing Technologies
- Required Resources
- Regulatory Factors
- Nonindustrial Robots
- Demand Factors
- General Constraints
- Synergistic Technologies
- Competing Technologies
- Required Resources
- Regulatory Factors
Areas to Monitor
- Industrial Robots
- Role of China and India
- Convergence with Nonindustrial Robots
- Technology and Applications Advances
- Robotics-Industry Structure
- Nonindustrial Robots
- The Aging Society
- Human-Augmentation Technologies
- Power and Motion Technologies
- Human-Robot Relationships
- New Applications
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robot Safety and Liability
- Bio-Robotics Interface
- Military-Robot Implementation
- New Materials and Manufacturing Methods for Robotic Components
- Nonindustrial-Robot Industry Structure
- Sliding Autonomy
- Networks and Wireless Technologies
- Toy or Tool?
- Media Attention
- Cultural and Regional Differences
Implications of Commercialization
- Possible Futures
- Service Applications Expand
- Industry Demand Increases
- Enabling-Robotics Technologies Develop
- Public Awareness Increases
- Change Has Consequences
Opportunities
- Industrial Robots
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Professional-Service Robots
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Defense Robots
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Health Care and Assistive Technologies
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Logistics Robots
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Entertainment, Hobbies, and Education
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Domestic Robots
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Technology Diffusion
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
Updates
Viewpoints Features
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