Glossary

Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR): A robot that navigates a workspace with sensors and maps rather than following only a fixed path. (Ch 7)

Collaborative robot: An industrial robot designed with safety functions and accessible programming for work near people. (Ch 6)

Humanoid: A robot with a human-like body configuration intended for varied tasks in human-centered environments. (Ch 4)

Tactile sensor: A sensor that measures contact location, force, pressure, slip, or related interaction signals. (Ch 8)

Vision-Language-Action model (VLA): A learned model that connects visual and language inputs to robot actions. (Ch 10)

World model: An internal learned representation that predicts environmental state and action outcomes. (Ch 10)

Corpus visibility: The count of independent company mentions in a defined news corpus and time window, not a global media-mention total. (Ch 2)

Evidence confidence: A confidence grade combining source independence, primary-source status, recency, and quantitative context. (Ch 2)