As the Internet of Things (IoT) penetrates different domains and application areas, it has recently entered also the world of robotics. Robotics constitutes a modern and fast-evolving technology, increasingly being used in industrial, commercial and domestic settings. IoT, together with the Web of Things (WoT) could provide many benefits to robotic systems. Some of the benefits of IoT in robotics have been discussed in related work. This paper moves one step further, studying the actual current use of IoT in robotics, through various real-world examples encountered through a bibliographic research. The paper also examines the potential ofWoT, together with robotic systems, investigating which concepts, characteristics, architectures, hardware, software and communication methods of IoT are used in existing robotic systems, which sensors and actions are incorporated in IoT-based robots, as well as in which application areas. Finally, the current application of WoT in robotics is examined and discussed.

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物联网在机器人领域的渗透：迈向机器人物联网

随着物联网 (IoT) 渗透到不同的领域和应用领域，它最近也进入了机器人领域。机器人技术是一种现代且快速发展的技术，越来越多地用于工业、商业和家庭环境。物联网与物联网 (WoT) 一起可为机器人系统带来许多好处。相关工作已经讨论了物联网在机器人技术中的一些好处。本文更进一步，通过书目研究中遇到的各种真实示例，研究当前物联网在机器人技术中的实际使用情况。该论文还研究了 WoT 与机器人系统的潜力，研究了物联网的哪些概念、特征、架构、硬件、软件和通信方法用于现有机器人系统，基于物联网的机器人中包含哪些传感器和动作，以及哪些应用领域。最后，检查和讨论了 WoT 在机器人技术中的当前应用。