What is the differnce between piracy & armed robbery ?

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Basically piracy is in high seas not within any states jurisdiction while armed robbery is within internal waters, territorial waters and archipelagic waters.

The following definition of piracy is contained in article 101 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS):
“Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
(a)any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(i)on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii)against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
(b)any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
(c)any act inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph (a) or (b).”

“Armed robbery against ships” means any of the following acts:
 1 any illegal act of violence or detention or any act of depredation, or threat thereof, other than an act of piracy, committed for private ends and directed against a ship or against persons or property on board such a ship, within a State’s internal waters, archipelagic waters and territorial sea;
 2 any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described above.

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