2017/04/27 by Irati Zamalloa, Zamalloa, Irati, Risto Kojcev +11 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Robot Manipulation and Learning #Robotics (cs.RO) #Robotics and Automated Systems #cs.RO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1704.08617
arxiv created 2017/04/27 · openalex publication_date 2017/04/27 · arxiv published 2017/04/27 · arxiv updated 2017/04/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Robotics is called to be the next technological revolution and estimations indicate that it will trigger the fourth industrial revolution. This article presents a review of some of the most relevant milestones that occurred in robotics over the last few decades and future perspectives. Despite the fact that, nowadays, robotics is an emerging field, the challenges in many technological aspects and more importantly bringing innovative solutions to the market still remain open. The need of reducing the integration time, costs and a common hardware infrastructure are discussed and further analysed in this work. We conclude with a discussion of the future perspectives of robotics as an engineering discipline and with suggestions for future research directions.