ROBOTICS: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

摘要

Robotics has experienced a major development in the application technology literature. Recent trends have shown a rise of interests in applications of robotics in manufacturing automation and information systems. Robotics and automation technology is being widely used for waste management, hazardous activities, industrial applications in the oil and gas industry, for marine cable route surveys, near shore nautical charting and military surveys pipeline inspection and monitoring of sensitive coastal environments, among others. Despite the immense opportunities for growth, the robotics field has suffered a high rate of disintegration across studies. The literature could be described as spit with studies scattered in different journals. The need to have an integrated literature on robotics therefore becomes important. This work is aimed at filling the gap. The holistic literature presented here aims to increase our understanding in this widely expanding field and stimulate a higher level of proliferation of research articles in the field.