🤖 Topic 6

Automated & Emerging Technologies

Explore how automated systems sense, process and respond, how robots work in different environments and how artificial intelligence enables computers to make decisions.

See how computers interact with the real world. Begin with automated systems, move into robotics, compare robots in different contexts and finish by exploring how artificial intelligence makes decisions.

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Follow the sequence or jump directly to the automation, robotics or AI concept you need.

6.1

Automated Systems

Understand how sensors, processors and actuators work together to monitor conditions and control a system automatically.

FoundationOpen lesson
6.2

Robotics

Explore how robots combine hardware, software, sensors and actuators to complete programmed tasks.

Robot systemsOpen lesson
6.3

Robots in Context

Compare how robots are used in manufacturing, medicine, agriculture, transport and other real-world environments.

Real-world useOpen lesson
6.4

Artificial Intelligence

Understand how AI systems use data and rules to recognise patterns, make decisions and solve problems.

Final lessonOpen lesson
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