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Robot Components
Robots have four basic building blocks.
  • Actuators:, also known as drives, are mechanisms for getting robots to move, which include motors, selenoids etc.
  • Sensors gives feedback to the robot about its surrounding and also position of its different parts.
  • Effectors: This include arms, wheels, fins, wings, etc. Effector is any moveable part that help robot to move and physically interact (pickup, grab, drop, move objects) with the environment
  • Controller: This is the brain of the robot and controls any moveable part.


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