TY - CHAP AU - Gregory Dubus AU - Olivier David AU - Yvan Measson ED - Houssem Abdellatif Y1 - 2010-02-01 PY - 2010 T1 - From Oil to Pure Water Hydraulics, Making Cleaner and Safer Force Feedback High Payload Telemanipulators N2 - Without a doubt, robotics has made an incredible progress over the last decades. The vision of developing, designing and creating technical systems that help humans to achieve hard and complex tasks, has intelligently led to an incredible variety of solutions. There are barely technical fields that could exhibit more interdisciplinary interconnections like robotics. This fact is generated by highly complex challenges imposed by robotic systems, especially the requirement on intelligent and autonomous operation. This book tries to give an insight into the evolutionary process that takes place in robotics. It provides articles covering a wide range of this exciting area. The progress of technical challenges and concepts may illuminate the relationship between developments that seem to be completely different at first sight. The robotics remains an exciting scientific and engineering field. The community looks optimistically ahead and also looks forward for the future challenges and new development. BT - Robotics 2010 SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/7337 DO - 10.5772/7337 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -