assembly line — ➔ line * * * assembly line UK US noun [C] ► PRODUCTION, WORKPLACE a line of machines and workers in a factory which a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job, which must be… … Financial and business terms
assembly line — an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line. Also called production… … Universalium
robot — robotism, n. robotic, robotistic /roh beuh tis tik, bo /, adj. robotlike, adj. /roh beuht, bot/, n. 1. a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command. 2. a person who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine… … Universalium
Robot Hall of Fame — The Robot Hall of Fame was established in 2003 by the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.It is designed to honor both achievements in robotics technology and robots from science fiction that… … Wikipedia
Robot calibration — is the process of identifying the real geometrical parameters in the kinematic structure of an industrial robot (IR), i.e., the relative position and orientation of links and joints in the robot.A calibrated robot has a higher absolute… … Wikipedia
Robot — This article is about mechanical robots. For other uses of the term, see robot (disambiguation). For software agents, see Bot. ASIMO (2000) at the Expo 2005, a humanoid robot … Wikipedia
Industrial robot — Articulated industrial robot operating in a foundry … Wikipedia
Self-reconfiguring modular robot — Modular self reconfiguring robotic systems or self reconfigurable modular robots are autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology. Beyond conventional actuation, sensing and control typically found in fixed morphology robots, self… … Wikipedia
Flame (robot) — Flame is the name of a roughly human shaped robot, developed in the Netherlands by Daan Hobbelen of the Mechanical Engineering department of Delft University. Robot motion is more easily done with wheels, but this robot was designed specifically… … Wikipedia
Mobile robot — A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of movement in a given environment. A spying robot is an example of a mobile robot capable of movement in a given environment. Courtesy: Gaurav Mittal, PEC[1] Contents … Wikipedia
Transformers (toy line) — The Transformers is a line of toys produced by the toy companies Takara and Hasbro. Initially reusing previously released toys from the Japanese toylines Diaclone (ダイアクロン) and Microman (ミクロマン), Hasbro issued the toys under the name Transformers… … Wikipedia