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 ofThings (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 of WoT, 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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物联网在机器人技术中的渗透：走向机器人事物的网络

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技术领域。机器人技术构成了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。物联网以及物联网（WoT）可以为机器人系统带来很多好处。相关工作中已经讨论了物联网在机器人技术中的一些好处。本文通过书目研究中遇到的各种实际示例，进一步研究了物联网在机器人技术中的实际使用情况。本文还研究了WoT以及机器人系统的潜力，调查了现有机器人系统中使用了IoT的哪些概念，特性，架构，硬件，软件和通信方法，哪些传感器和动作已集成到基于IoT的机器人中以及哪些应用领域中。最后，研究和讨论了WoT在机器人技术中的当前应用。