How Engineering Robots Works: Crash Course Engineering #33

In this episode of Crash Course Engineering, we’ll look at robots and the engineering principles of robots. We’ll learn how robots use sensors to interpret their environment, how actuators and effectors allow a robot to manipulate the objects around it to accomplish a task, and how computers coordinate the efforts of the two.

Crash Course Engineering is produced in association with PBS Digital Studios.

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