engineering

Workerbot

Workerbot is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Workerbot rather than just read about it. In short: The workerbot is a trademark, which was developed by the pi4 robotics GmbH to describe an industrial robot, which was modeled with its possibilities of movement and its sensory abilities of a human. The industrial robot has two arms with seven degrees of freedom.

Key takeaways

Workerbot belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Workerbot to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Workerbot from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The workerbot is a trademark, which was developed by the pi4 robotics GmbH to describe an industrial robot, which was modeled with its possibilities of movement and its sensory abilities of a human. The industrial robot has two arms with seven degrees of freedom. In the arms of force sensors are integrated, enabling the robot to work while the forces occurring measure and similar to humans the gripping process or machining processes to adapt to the forces occurring accordingly. The robot is also equipped with cameras that it can detect its environment and react to it. This industrial robot has been developed within the EU funded project PISA (Flexible Assembly Systems through Workplace-Sharing and Time-Sharing Human-Machine Cooperation). The project consortium consists of the lead company pi4_robotics GmbH and the Fraunhofer IPK, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the company EICAS Automazione S.p.A. . The aim is to enable the use of highly flexible industrial robots manufacturing companies within the European Union cost production and to prevent the migration to low-wage countries. The workerbot is still the first operative humanoid factory worker worldwide that can be acquired by purchase. In context with the workerbot there is the first webshop for humanoid robots.

References

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External links pi4_robotics: The official homepage of workerbot pi4_robotics: Video of workerbot Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt: Registerauskunft zur Marke "workerbot" FP6-Rahmenprogramm der EU: PISA Projekt Archived 2008-01-02 at the Wayback Machine FP6-Rahmenprogramm der EU: PISA-Projekt Sub Project 2 - Time Sharing Intelligent Assist Systems Europäische Kommission: CORDIS Informationsdienst Nationale F&E Awards / Prizes: The workerbot of pi4_robotics won the MM Award 2010 at the fair Automatica Awards / Prizes: The workerbot of pi4_robotics is a finalist in the euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2011 Zeitschrift VDMA Nachrichten 02-2011: Robotik Neue Ära der flexiblen Automation Zeitschrift Blechnet 07-2012: Zweiarmige Roboter stehen für neue Anwendungen bereit

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Workerbot

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Workerbot claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Workerbot before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Workerbot ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Workerbot

In research: Workerbot appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Workerbot in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Workerbot is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American inventions, Industrial robots, Packaging machinery, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Workerbot outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Workerbot in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Workerbot means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Workerbot out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Workerbot in simple terms?

Why does Workerbot matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Workerbot?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Workerbot.