Robotics
is an area in the interdisciplinary research in the computer, engineering, and science interface. Robotics majorly involves the construction, operation of the design, and the usage of robots (Brady, Gerhardt, and Davidson eds. 2012). The major aim of robotics is to design intelligent machines, to help humans in their daily lives, in addition to keeping everyone safe. The major achievements that robotics draw from include computer, mechanical, electronic, and information engineering, among others. Machines that are developed in this field can be used sometimes as a substitute for human beings, in addition to replicating their actions. One importance of these robots that are being developed includes their vast usage in areas that humans cannot survive, especially in dangerous environments like the containment of hazardous materials, inspecting radioactive materials, and the deactivation of explosives (Brady, Gerhardt, and Davidson eds. 2012).
On the other hand, artificial intelligence is also known as machine intelligence. This intelligence is normally demonstrated by non-living things, unlike natural intelligence in animals and humans. In a colloquial definition, artificial intelligence describes any computer or machine that serves to mimic the cognitions associated with people and the human mind, an example being solving problems and learning (Brady, Gerhardt, and Davidson eds. 2012). The traditional aims of artificial intelligence were knowledge, reasoning, learning, planning, perception, and processing, as well as the ability to manipulate and moving objects. Artificial intelligence on its side draws its achievements from computer science, information engineering, linguistics, and philosophy. The foundation of artificial intelligence was the assumption that intelligence in human beings can be put into a precise description that machines can be programmed to simulate it. Many questions and arguments have been raised concerning this process, especially philosophical arguments about ethics and the mind, due to the creation of objects with a human-like intellect as pointed out by Brady, Gerhardt, and Davidson eds. (2012). Both artificial intelligence and robotics have their similarities with other past technological innovations as discussed in this paper.
Humankind has always been in the race to pursue technological advancements ever after the invention of the fire by the early man. These first innovations made man be always on working to produce innovation instruments. In the course of studying historical innovations, we arrive at the arrival of man in present-day technology. The majority of the objects or instruments we use or manipulate have been brought into being by the process of innovation, as well as other big machines and vessels that we use for our service (Boyd and Holton 2018). All these ranges from the eyeglasses worn for magnification of eyesight as well as the binoculars, the printing press, personal computers, electricity, the internal combustion engine, the cars, telephones, semi-conductors, and the airplanes. There are major differences as well as similarities between these past innovations and the robotics combined with artificial