What makes a robot smart?

When we talk about smart robots, we are not necessarily referring to an advanced artificial intelligence like those in a science fiction movie or a supercomputer that wins the Jeopardy championship, although those are some very smart robots. The definition of a smart robot is actually much broader and includes some devices you may not have originally considered smart.

A smart robot is simply any device that uses sensors to measure some condition in its environment, then decides what to do next based on a set of pre-programmed instructions. They have some kind of computer or controller acting as their brain that processes the sensor information and interprets these instructions. You can think of the software loaded ...

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