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Affordance

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-000112

A property of an object or environment that suggests how it can be interacted with or used by a robot. It describes the potential actions a robot can perform based on the object's physical characteristics and the robot's capabilities. For example, a handle affords grasping, while a button affords pressing.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-000112
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectRobotics
ReferencesAffordances | IEEE Technology Navigator (technav.ieee.org)
TranslationsGerman: Affordance; Spanish: affordance; French: affordance
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-000112",
  "term": "Affordance",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A property of an object or environment that suggests how it can be interacted with or used by a robot. It describes the potential actions a robot can perform based on the object's physical characteristics and the robot's capabilities. For example, a handle affords grasping, while a button affords pressing.",
  "subject": "Robotics",
  "references": [
    "Affordances | IEEE Technology Navigator (technav.ieee.org)"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Affordance",
    "es": "affordance",
    "fr": "affordance"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/affordance/"
}

Record 118 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.