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Lexicon of Collaborative Robot Terminology

The idea of standards is to try and harmonize usage across many countries and often fields of use. The standards are thus written in many languages and these languages might use the same term for similar meanings, but they might also use the same term to mean different things. There is terminology for the standards and there is common usage terminology, which also could be the same or different according to the language. So lets look at some specific terminology for the English language, so that we can all be on the same page when talking about robotic technology.

JA Carette
By JA Carette
on Mar 18, 2014 8:00 AM. 7 min read time
 
Lexicon of Collaborative Robot Terminology

The idea of standards is to try and harmonize usage across many countries and often fields of use. The standards are thus...

JA Carette
By JA Carette
on Mar 18, 2014 8:00 AM
Read more 7 min read time
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