Quantum Robotics: A Primer on Current Science and Future Perspectives (Synthesis Lectures on Quantum Computing)

Quantum robotics is an emerging engineering and scientific research discipline that explores the application of quantum mechanics, quantum computing, quantum algorithms, and related fields to robotics. This work broadly surveys advances in our scientific understanding and engineering of quantum mechanisms and how these developments are expected to impact the technical capability for robots to sense, plan, learn, and act in a dynamic environment. It also discusses the new technological potential that quantum approaches may unlock for sensing and control, especially for exploring and manipulating quantum-scale environments. Finally, the work surveys the state of the art in current implementations, along with their benefits and limitations, and provides a roadmap for the future.

量子機器人學是一個新興的工程和科學研究領域，探索量子力學、量子計算、量子算法和相關領域在機器人技術中的應用。這項工作廣泛調查了我們對量子機制的科學理解和工程技術的進展，以及這些發展預計如何影響機器人在動態環境中感知、規劃、學習和行動的技術能力。它還討論了量子方法在感知和控制方面可能解鎖的新技術潛力，特別是在探索和操縱量子尺度環境方面。最後，這項工作調查了當前實現的最新技術水平，以及它們的優點和限制，並提供了未來的發展路線圖。