Introduction 

Interdisciplinary research is a decision-making process that involves researching a particular topic and making aware of disciplines on personal bias. Interdisciplinary studies include significant recognition of the interdisciplinary process while becoming aware of the interdisciplinary steps for an advanced range of awareness in different areas (Razmak & Danger, 2016). There is a growing differentiation in disciplines and it ensures increased specialization. An advantage to learn on different disciplines is ensured with interdisciplinary research. Different methods are used while looking through the spectacles and obtaining research on several complicated problems. Interdisciplinary research is complex research as it includes three or more disciplines in the research with complicated things that optimize the range of factors of the research.

Robotics is selected as the topic of interdisciplinary research that constitutes engineering, medical and humanities. These are the three disciplines that are covered in the report while emphasizing the importance of each discipline with typical coverage of concepts of interdisciplinary. Robots have become a popular tool in modern science while some disadvantages are attached to robotics in science and its scope.

Robotics

Robotics is a young field that has several disciplines attached while focusing on the interdisciplinary field. The nature of building systems and considering science fiction is rooted in real technology and its components that make computer brains. Humans are responsible when it comes to robotics invention. The artificial intelligence tool is generated with the help of robotics which is even used in medical surgeries while trying to focus on robotic surgery (Bammer, 2013). The medical field is highly researched on the advantages of finding robotics as an important tool to make surgeries and to ensure a problem-solving attitude. Robots have become popular in today’s world as human beings are replaced with robots to make things easy. Robots have a computer brain that stores the information and measures it as and when the information is updated. Therefore to concentrate on robotics, several disciplines ensure standardized and scientific information. Robotics is largely focused while emphasizing the engineering field as with the extent of computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering, the use of robotics has become possible and advisable (Boon, 2017). Robotics in surgery is a widespread and concerned area to focus on improving the health of individuals with multi-discipline status and related topics. Automatic tasks are performed by robots which are significant emergence that is related to improving people’s lifestyle and quality of life.

Interdisciplinary involved in Robotics

Interdisciplinary is involved in robotics. Robotics works on engineering, humanities and medical aid providing basis. The concept of robotics is highly connected with several disciplines that ensure advantages that are precisely in terms of mechanical engineering that can be used in space to derive control assistance. Surgeries are now possible with the latest innovations in medical with the help of robotics. Medical aid and improved lifestyle are ensured with robotics. Doctors get better image transmission due to the invention of robots. Camera installation and screening of photos that are sent to doctors is the robotics technology that provides an advantage to doctors to perform certain examinations and tests accurately (Eaton, 2017). Humanity discipline is involved in robotics. The reason why humanities are attached in robotics ensures the occurrence of robotics is due to human efforts that were made to create a tool that will become a helping hand in some or the other way. This way, the major emphasizes is on human beings’ effort who have made possible research and applied in real life. Humans have made efforts to advanced technologies as it consists of engineering aspects that are connected to science and technology. Engineers strive to achieve specific result while focusing on robotics technology and build a connection instead of the latest experiments that provides advantages to human beings.

Interdisciplinary research process

The interdisciplinary process is described as the step to achieve a certain research area that provides guidelines in a research topic. An interdisciplinary approach is essential as it explores the critical challenges of the world. The technological issues, societal problems, health care, business studies, and education reform are the real-life problems that the world faces. Information on interdisciplinary areas is essential as it solves the problems with an effective research and problem-solving ability (Repko, 2007). To evaluate the knowledge, the transformation of ideas in terms of interdisciplinary approach is essential. The interdisciplinary process includes steps such as

1 Defining the problem

2 Justify using id approach

3 Relevant disciplines identification

4 Literature search

5 Adequacy in disciplines

6 Analyze the problem

7 Identification of conflicts

8 Common ground approach

9 Integrate insights

10 Work on id understanding of the issue

Define the problem: Robotics is a human invention, it can have an error that is considered on a high-level understanding of several parameters and open-ended research. Robotics is too complex to be solved in one discipline as it includes several other disciplines. The main disciplines that are covered are humanities, engineering and medical. Is Robotics a major problem of safety? The problem of high context security is addressed with an important area of medical and surgeries undertaken on humans to be accurately measured and treated for improved lifestyle and quality of life.

Justification of interdisciplinary areas: robotics is related to three major disciplines such as humanities, engineering and medical. The three disciplines have closeness and are connected within robotics.

Literature: The growing research that is related to surgery is related to the engineering and research field. Robots are primarily introduced in medical technology to assist in providing medical aid such as nursing (Boon & Baalen, 2019). Surgical robots are used to solve intractable disease which increases the safety of surgery and ensures accurate results. With the development and success of IT, surgical robots have limited examinations that are not 100% accurate. Thereby long-term feasibility is not the case which still needs to be improved. With the means of magnified view, the minimally invasive surgery can be greatly improved with dexterity and robotic platform. Scientifically tested, clinical applicants of robotics may have certain disadvantages like trust and safety factors. Machines are built by man but cannot be trusted wholly as it includes technologies and techniques that may be harmful due to radiations and its effects (Ishiguro, 2011). Interdisciplinary research consists in robotics as it is inevitable to provide particular use of robotics in one discipline. The disciplines represent collaboration which in turn ensures the close connection of humanities, engineering and medical. Each discipline connects and assigns respective clusters to form a co-occurrence matrix that can be calculated with closeness and degree centrality. As a whole, robotics is a hub of several research disciplines.  

Adequacy in disciplines: In each discipline, humanities, engineering, and medicine that is related to robotics, there is keen awareness about discipline entailment. Some elements ensure discipline criteria. The elements include assumptions, phenomena, theories, methods, concepts, and epistemology. All three disciplines include a major insight into the real problem.

Analysis of the problem: Robotics is the greatest invention, still it has several disadvantages that cannot be ignored. The problem needs to be solved significantly to ensure safety for individuals in the field of humanity, engineering and medical (Hyung, 2019). Several benefits are provided in terms of comparing the results and ensure the determining value of robotics in human life. The results of robotics in medical surgeries are accurate but not always to the point.

Identification of conflicts: Conflicts in the field of robotics have made a major change in research areas (Shen, Wang, Dai & Zhang, 2019). Robots have installed information to which it works thereby there arises conflict when robotics have some issues.

Common ground approach: The common ground approach that is revealed is the major acceptance of creating machines that can think there own and can bridge the gap of conflicts.

Integrate insights: Insights on robotics focus on the invention and development of robotics in terms of artificial intelligence

Work on an interdisciplinary understanding of the issue: Interdisciplinary aspects are measured and tested to focus on the problem and benefits of robotics.

Conclusion

The report concludes with the 10 step framework of the interdisciplinary research process on Robotics. Robotics is the most argumentative topic that ensures the benefits and limitations of several interdisciplinary areas. The areas that were covered in the report are humanity, medical and engineering. A 10 step framework helped to focus on the problem and solve the problem while identifying the aspect and considering effective steps to solve the issue. The three disciplines of robotics are analyzed in detail and illustrated with the use of robotics for medical and engineering.

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