Introduction
In school we learned many things: e.g. vocabulary, grammar, geography, solving mathematical equations, and coordinating movements in sports. These are very different things which involve declarative knowledge as well as procedural knowledge or skills in principally all fields. We are used to subsume these various processes of obtaining this knowledge and skills under the single word “learning“. And, we learned that learning is important. Why is it important to a living organism?
Learning is a crucial capability if the effective environment cannot be foreseen in all relevant details, either due to complexity, or due to the nonstationarity of the environment. The mechanisms of learning allow nature to create and re-produce organisms or systems which can evolve — with respect to the later given environment —optimized behavior.
This is a fascinating mechanism, which also has very attractive technical perspectives. Today many technical appliances and systems are standardized and cost-efficient mass products. As long as they are non-adaptable, they require the environment and its users to comply to the given standard. Using learning mechanisms, advanced technical systems can adapt to the different given needs, and locally reach a satisfying level of helpful performance.
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| Title | : | Rapid Learning In Robotics |
| Category | : | Robotics Ebooks, Robotics Tutorial. |
| Tags | : | ebooks, education, knowledge, robotics, robotics learning, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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