Robotics and autonomous systems represent an ever-evolving, high technological field of engineering covering a wide range of applications and theories, including computational architectures; human-robot interfaces; manipulation and locomotion; planning and navigation; sensing, and perception; machine-learning and adaptation; self-calibration and repair; and so on.
Autonomous mobile robots, sometimes abbreviated to AMRs but more commonly referred to by the simpler moniker of autonomous robots, are the culmination of this complex applicational intersection. But what is autonomy in the context of robotics, and what is the difference between an autonomous robot and a conventional robotics system?