Chapter 1
Fundamentals of Robotics

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe important events in the history of robotics
• Explain the importance of using artificial intelligence, artificial vision and natural language processing
• Classify a robot depending on its goal or function
• Identify the parts of a robot
• Estimate a robot’s position using odometry

This chapter covers the brief history of robotics, classifies different types of robots and its hardware, and explains a way to find a robot's position using odometry.