ABSTRACT
Embedded systems and robotics are the most interrelated terms in this cutting-edge technological era. The revolution of smartphone, smart realtime operating system (RTOS), and system-on-chip technology provides a new dimension to the embedded hardware. In the past, the embedded system was a bit complicated to manage and a huge chunk of assembly-level code was to be written to program the whole system. But as things keep changing quite drastically, nowadays embedded systems act as a platform in the development of software/rmware, thus reducing the development time. The architecture of the system also keeps changing day by day so as to increase processing power and to decrease energy consumption. The enhancement of the RTOS-like Android gives another new dimension to embedded systems. On the contrary, robotics has evolved to higher-dimensional applications. In earlier years, robots were only used in industrial and scientic research, but today robotics has reached a new dimension, thanks to open-source hardware; starting from military to medical applications or maybe for entertainment or as a hobby, the concept of robotics has been widely spread. Robotics experts claim that by 2022 they will produce a robotic maid that will cost less than $100,000.
