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Robotics is a new science connected with the design, (1) __________ and software maintenance of robots. Nowadays robotics is paid great attention by the (2) __________ all over the world. Many countries have companies handling the problems of robotics. And in some countries robotics has even been introduced into the lives of elementary and high school (3)__________ .
A person involved in the process of robotics development is called a roboticist. He (4)__________ , builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of (5) __________ including computer science, (6) __________ engineering, electrical (7) __________ , and computer engineering. Roboticists often work for university, industry, and government research labs, but may also work for startup companies and other firms.
Universal Robotics, Inc, is one of software engineering (8) __________ that develops, (9)__________ , and supports an operating system for machine intelligence. Headquartered at Smith Springs in Nashville, Tennessee, Universal Robotics was co-founded by professor Dr. Alan Peters, of the Center for Intelligent Systems in the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and his brothers David Peters, a businessman, and Jonathan Peters, an IT (10) __________ . The company was incorporated as a holding company on August 29, 2001. Universal is a hybrid of functional and product organizational structures. There are six task areas: 1) strategic (11) __________ , 2) sales and service of customers, 3) engineering and programming, 4) quality (12) __________ , 5) research and development, and 6) security.