IB Digital Society Topic 3.7A Types of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Revision Notes (SL/HL)

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3.7A Types of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots vs Autonomous Technologies

A robot is a machine with a physical body that senses its surroundings and acts on them, usually with some autonomy.
An autonomous technology is any system that can act on its own to reach a goal, with or without a body.
The categories overlap but differ: a factory arm and self-driving car are both (body plus autonomy); a spam filter or virtual assistant is autonomous but bodiless; a toaster has a body but no autonomy, so is neither.
The distinction matters. Robots must be safe to share physical space with. Bodiless systems raise a different worry, about hidden decisions and the data they run on.

Industrial Robots

Industrial robots are the oldest and most widespread type: programmable arms doing physical factory work (welding, painting, assembly, packing) around the clock.
Their strength is consistency in a controlled setting: a predictable environment means they need accuracy and repeatability, not much intelligence. Unimate (1961) was the first.
Economics drove their spread: high upfront cost but continuous fixed-rate work, so automation took hold first in high-volume repetitive manufacturing.
Impacts: boosted output but displaced routine manual jobs, launching the automation-and-jobs debate that runs through to today's AI.
Stakeholders gained unevenly: owners and consumers got cheaper goods, some workers moved to overseeing machines, but the power to share the gains sits with those who own the robots.

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IB Digital Society 3.7A Types of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Notes

3.7A Types of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots vs Autonomous Technologies

Industrial Robots

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Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

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Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

IB Digital Society 3.7A Types of Robots and Autonomous Technologies Notes

Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

3.7A Types of Robots and Autonomous Technologies

Robots vs Autonomous Technologies

Industrial Robots

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Robots vs Autonomous Technologies

Industrial Robots

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