Robot

Abstract

The ISO definition of an industrial robot is: “An industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable multipurpose manipulator pro grammableinthree or moreaxes, which caneither be fixed in place or mobile for use in industrialautomation applications” (ISO 2012). In the ISO definition, there is a differentiation of robots for industrial use and for other tasks useful to humans. A service robot is a robot that is used to perform all kinds of useful tasks for humans excluding industrial automation tasks.For that reason, the same robot can be classified as either an industrial robot when it is used for assembly or a service robot when it is used to serve food (ISO 2012).