Editing Industrial robot (section)

== Autonomy ==
Robots exhibit varying degrees of [[autonomous robot|autonomy]]. 
Some robots are programmed to faithfully carry out specific actions over and over again (repetitive actions) without variation and with a high degree of accuracy. These actions are determined by programmed routines that specify the direction, acceleration, velocity, deceleration, and distance of a series of coordinated motions

Other robots are much more flexible as to the orientation of the object on which they are operating or even the task that has to be performed on the object itself, which the robot may even need to identify. For example, for more precise guidance, robots often contain [[machine vision]] sub-systems acting as their visual sensors, linked to powerful computers or controllers.<ref name="NASAarticle">{{cite journal |journal= [[NASA Tech Briefs]] |volume= 35 |issue= 6 |date= June 2011 |title= Machine Vision Fundamentals, How to Make Robots See |author= Turek, Fred D. |pages= 60–62 |url= http://www.techbriefs.com/privacy-footer-69/10531 |access-date= 2011-11-29 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120127043340/http://www.techbriefs.com/privacy-footer-69/10531 |archive-date= 2012-01-27 }}</ref> [[Artificial intelligence]] is becoming an increasingly important factor in the modern industrial robot.