What's the Difference Between Robotics and Artificial Intelligence?
It is Robotics part of AI? Is AI part of robotics? What is the difference between the two terms? We answer this fundamental question. Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) serve very different purposes. However, people often get them mixed up. A lot of people wonder if robotics is a subset of artificial intelligence. Others wonder if they are the same thing. Since the first version of this article, which we published back in 2017, the question has gotten even more confusing. The rise in the use of the word "robot" in recent years to mean any sort of automation has cast even more doubt on how robotics and AI fit together (more on this at the end of the article). It's time to put things straight once and for all. Are robotics and artificial intelligence the same thing? The first thing to clarify is that robotics and artificial intelligence are not the same things at all. In fact, the two fields are almost entirely separate. A Venn diagram of the two fields would l