Intelligent software can exist without a moving body. However, many researchers think it makes sense to further develop artificial intelligence (AI) in connection with robots, because the connection between body and mind is also elementary for humans. A child's mental development (language, social skills, spatial orientation) is closely linked to their own body experience. Depending on their design or tasks, robots can be divided into different types:
Industrial robots: By far the most common robots to date. You have highly specialized and limited skills. They often perform mechanical, uncomfortable or unhealthy activities.
Collaborative robots (cobots): The further development of industrial robots. They are designed to work hand in hand with people without becoming dangerous to them. Ability to learn and communicate; Goal: You should fit into human work processes (not the other way around).
Social robots: Social robots should keep old people company and support them, help with child care or be used in therapeutic facilities. The nature and scope of these tasks is the subject of ethical debate.
Swarm robots: Small, simply constructed robots that are used in large numbers and communicate with each other, mostly only with their immediate neighbors. The principle is taken from nature (swarm intelligence). Can be used in agriculture or in the elimination of environmental damage, including in the military (swarms of drones).
Nano robots: Tiny robots that e.g. B. be introduced into the body to transport drugs to a specific location; so far only first experiments on animals.
Soft robots: Previous robots have been constructed from rigid materials, which limits their sensitivity and adaptability. Experimentation is carried out e.g. B. with new materials like hydrogel, which is controlled by water pressure. Possibly of great importance for future developments.
Military robots: Autonomous fighting machines are part of the horror scenario of science fiction stories and are now (at least on the training ground) a reality. At the UN, many states advocate a ban on autonomous weapons systems, others consider them to be ethically justifiable.
(Original text; Robot system based on: Manuela Lenzen, Artificial Intelligence. Munich 2018 2 , p. 97ff. )

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