Deck 2: Introduction to Industrial Robotics

Question 1

Which company developed a controller capable of controlling eight robots or 72 axes of movement and a robot with a human torso?

A) ABB
B) FANUC
C) AMF
D) MOTOMAN

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Tasks that are repetitive in nature fall under which of the following Ds of robotics?

A) Dull
B) Dirty
C) Difficult
D) Dangerous

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following robots was considered by industry as the first useful robot?

A) PLANETBOT
B) Colossus
C) YuMi®
D) Stanford Arm

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Working in a radioactive environment is an example of a ____________ task.

A) dull
B) dirty
C) difficult
D) dangerous

Question 5

Tasks that require one to bend and twist at the same time while carrying a load is an example of a ____________ task.

A) dull
B) dirty
C) difficult
D) dangerous

Question 6

Who developed the SCARA type robot?

A) Dr.Robert J.Shillman
B) Hiroshi Makino
C) Victor Scheinman
D) ASEA

Question 7

Augusta Ada King is famous for _______________.

A) creating a remote control boat
B) writing the first example of a computer program
C) building the first digital computer
D) building the first true robot

Question 8

What is an industrial robot as defined by RIA?

Question 9

Tasks that involve grease would fall under which of the following Ds of robotics?

A) Dull
B) Dirty
C) Difficult
D) Dangerous

Question 10

What are the four Ds of robotics,and what is an example of each?

Question 11

The Dexter Bot,LBR iiwa,UR,and Baxter robot ______________.

A) are all humanoid robots
B) have worked on the space station
C) are all collaborative robots
D) require a safety cage

Question 12

Which of the following statements is not true of 2015?

A) Rethink Robotics released Sawyer.
B) Yaskawa Motoman's dual-arm robot entered its fifth generation of development.
C) Robotics companies focused more on sensors and software than advances in the core robotic system.
D) FANUC announced a collaboration with Cisco.

Question 13

The Jacquard Loom used ______________ to change the operation of the loom.

A) CNC control
B) NC control
C) punch card control
D) a rotating drum with pegs on it

Question 14

Which of the following has the honor of the first robot-human handshake in space?

A) YuMi®
B) Robonaut 2
C) Baxter
D) Sawyer

Question 15

The AC induction motor,a radio-controlled boat design,and the world's first AC power plant are all credited to __________.

A) Thomas Edison
B) Hans Bullmann
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Nikola Tesla

Question 16

What are three things that Nikola Tesla is famous for?

Question 17

Who created the microchip?

A) Thomas Edison
B) Gottfried Wilhelm
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Jack Kilby

Question 18

Who created the word "robot"?

A) Fritz Lang
B) Karel Capek
C) Charles Babbage
D) John Dee

Question 19

Who gave the world a mathematical representation of how voltage,current,and resistance interact?

A) Georg Simon Ohm
B) Michael Faraday
C) Alessandro Volta
D) James Prescott Joule

Question 20

The ISO standard ISO/TS 15066:2016 specifies __________________.

A) the safety requirements for mobile robots specifically
B) the safety requirements for caged industrial robots
C) the minimum federal safety requirements
D) the safety requirements for collaborative industrial robots

Question 21

What are some of the other factors besides the four Ds or Hs that drive industry to use robotics?

Question 22

Who created the first industrial robot,and when was that?