An analog robot is a type of
robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be c ...
which uses
analog circuitry to go toward a simple goal such as finding more light or responding to sound. The first real analog robot was invented in the 1940s by
William Grey Walter. The name of these robots were
ELSIE and
ELMER
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(Electro Mechanical Robot). The original circuitry was developed using two vacuum tubes and a photocell to search and follow a light. Recently a kind of analog robots was developed by
Mark Tilden.
Some modern analog robots are
BEAM robots.
Braitenberg Vehicles
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(described by
Valentino Braitenberg) also are frequently analog, consisting of the output of sensors connected to motors without any form of signal processing.
See Also
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Analog computer
External links
BEAM community– A specific type of analog robot.
KHM– Robots in academia.
– A research report.
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1940s in robotics
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