Robotics in Today's Digital World (Completion)

The ultimate intelligent machine is a robotic system endowed with a flexible and adaptable electro-mechanical structure that is inherently safe in its motions and interactions, coupled with intelligence at different levels of granularity including cognitive capabilities approaching or perhaps exceeding human capabilities in certain aspects. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to robotic manipulators and systems. Various related topics of importance are also introduced and discussed in relation to the robotic system. It covers what robots can and cannot do today and reviews the current challenges that scientists and technologists are addressing. It will provide a preview of the future in which robotic systems play a central role in our everyday lives.