Ruth, robotics is just another name for computer controlled. I have tremors in my hands terribly so I have to depend on a computer to do my quilting for me. I still have to decide what to quilt and where to put it so I still have some say so about it. As my robotics has a mode where I can pretty much make my own pattern, I've been trying to use it as much as possible. On the Spiderweb I made the star pattern. On the other Spiderweb I did a couple of months back, again I used the "teach" mode and told it to stitch 1/4" all the way around the star area. My next quilt I have on the frame has tiny little 1/2 square triangles all around it so I'm going to try my hand at outlining them using the "teach" mode so its just my way of doing a sort of FM quilting.
Thanks for looking.