Learn in the textbookFundamental Concepts of IoT and Embedded Systems
DefinitionRobotics (ロボティクス) is the technical field that brings together the research and technology for designing robots, building them and making them move as intended.
ExplanationIt combines knowledge from several fields, such as mechanical structure, electronic circuits and control software. Its core is building the whole chain from grasping the surroundings with sensors and deciding how to move to driving the body with actuators.
AnalogyIt is to robots what culinary science is to food: it refers not to each dish but to the body of methods for making them.
Memory hookRobot plus -ics, the ending for a field of study, as in physics and electronics.