Resumen
The article discusses the intelligence, versatility and adaptivity in robots. Robotics research has come a long way over the past four decades from the early days of manipulator control in manufacturing plants to today's mobile robots, many finding application in the unstructured, everyday world around people. A key challenge in robotics is designing algorithms that allow robots to function autonomously in unstructured, dynamic, partially observable, and uncertain environments. Today, for the first time, robots are capable of functioning in novel situations, reasoning about and acting in relatively complex domains. The author further says that robotics today, however, covers an even greater scope than this eclectic collection of articles might suggest. The field of distributed robotics studies methods for collective and cooperative robot team coordination for a vast variety of tasks. Sensor-actuator networks represent an area of research closely related to distributed robotics and serve as a bridge to the computer network and architecture disciplines.