Robots

By Erik Brandt

• Asimo from Honda

Robots in General

• Are machines that are also independent beings

•Are especially made for doing jobs too boring, difficult, or dangerous for humans to do

• P2 from Honda

• Few resemble the human like robots that appear in works of science fiction

• These are called humanoid robots

Robot History

•Term robot was fist used by a Czech man named Karel Capek for his play R.U.R.

•Comes from the Czech word “robota”

•Other film makers and playwrights used the term in their own productions

• Coco is a test robot

•scientists then created small robots programmed for very simple tasks

• but scientists still wanted to create humanoid robots, and succeeded

•Scientists then wanted to give these robots emotions, and succeeded again

• Dante II walking into an active volcano

• Cog is a highly developed humanoid robot

Robots in Science Fiction

• C-3PO and R2-D2 from Star Wars

• Robbie from The Forbidden Planet

• The Terminator

• These are a few examples of the humanoid robot images of science fiction

Robot Movement• When they act, they must first do a three step process to actually complete the task at hand

• First step is to sense their environment

• The second step is to think up a plan in their computer that somehow gets their task accomplished

• Urbie the urban robot is used to inspect dangerous urban areas

• Third step is to execute the plan

• Robots must follow the plan EXACTLY or the result could be hazardous

• Robot soccer

• Kismet is an emotional robot, but is never sad

Robot Sight• Most have very poor sight

• Sight comes in two forms: edge detection and pixel

• Edge detection works by the robot tracing all edges in its view on its computer • Notice Asimo’s large eyes.

The reason for this is that it can see in a wider range.

• Pixel vision is when the robot sees in little squares called pixels

• Pixels are usually to large to make any details noticeable

Robot Hearing

• To create this, the scientists must recreate the way the cilia in an ear work

• The problem is that they have to use metal to do so

• Robots would have to be able to recognize human sounds and human languages

Robot Touch

• Robot needs sensitive metal to achieve a sense of touch

• Robot needs to know what they have contacted

A Robot’s Computer

• All information of sight, hearing, touch, and everything else must be processed

• Computer must be very intelligent and able to store lots of data

Urbie is personally my favorite robot. GO URBIE!!!

Platypuses are so awesome.

I’m a total Star Wars freak too. Yoda is also awesome.