Is Robotics Lagging AI?

The concept of autonomous machines dates back to medieval times, but the research into the practical and potential use of robots began only in the 20th century. Today, there are numerous scholars, inventors, engineers, and technicians that are working to develop machines that mimic human behaviour and manage tasks in a human-like fashion. While artificial intelligence plays a crucial role in the development and advancement of robotics, the rise of general-purpose robots poses a question of whether robotics has begun to lag AI. People often confuse robotics for industrial automation and academia and research. While for most high-end research robots, it has deep learning embedded into them such as computer vision linked objects, feature detection and classification, industrial robots are beginning to include the maturity of camera-based object detection and classification.