The process of carrying out a defined unit of work, including scheduling, resource allocation, and tracking of completion. In computing and robotics it covers running operations in response to plans or requests.
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- Task execution sits downstream of planning, taking an ordered set of actions and running them while monitoring for success, failure, and the need to replan. In robotics it links high-level goals to low-level actuation.
- In software systems task execution is handled by schedulers, workers, and orchestration layers that manage concurrency, retries, and dependencies between units of work.