Over the years, robots have been sliced and diced into many categories: industrial, personal/consumer, autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, educational, entertainment, medical, humanoid, underwater … and the list goes on. While people imagine the future having robots in many aspects of life, historically, they have had most traction in manufacturing logistics. In this area, these are the common categories of robots:

• Industrial robot: This robot is generally fixed to the floor of manufacturing plants or warehouses. A classic example is the manufacturing arm, in which robots were manually preprogrammed to perform repetitive tasks with no sensing of the environment around them…