Modern Industrial Robotics

Abstract

In the past decade, robots have become the basic tools for the automatization and robotization of industrial production, as they used to be in the 70s programmable controllers, in the 80s processor drive controllers, in the 90s of the twentieth century frequency controlled AC motors and in the first years of the 21st century digitization, expressed in the significant advancement and dissemination of computerization, telecommunications and internetization. This role is evidenced by further, beyond conventional robotics, extension of its application and the emergence of new hardware and software solutions oriented towards joint, by robots and human, undertaking of hitherto not rationalized production tasks. This essay is devoted to these transformations in contemporary robotics.