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When mechatronics melds with artificial intelligence

More than three decades ago, it was quite amazing to see KITT--an advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, self-aware black car--from the American TV series Knight Rider, perform some unbelievable acts. Today, we are all building KITTs--unmanned and autonomous ground and aerial vehicles that can walk, jump, float, swim, glide, fly and conquer almost all terrains with their designs that can take precise and accurate action, making them highly efficient performers. In the realm of AI, we are now transferring the knowledge to our machines to perform tasks and make them intelligent decision makers through machine learning (ML), a core area of AI. These are technical objects designed and built by people like us. Truly, this belief turned my passion into a profession, and in hindsight, I have found robots to be technologically complex beings, much needed to support humanity.Robotics is interdisciplinary and thus a combination of mechanical, electronics and computer science has lead to Mechatronics being one of the most coveted fields and as this meets AI, we produce Intelligent Robots.Technical classification of Robots are based on locomotion such as stationary, wheeled, legged, swimming and flying robots.