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Robots
• Asimo
from
Honda
By Erik Brandt
Robots in General
• P2 from Honda
• Are
machines
that are also
independent
beings
•Are especially made for doing
jobs too boring, difficult, or
dangerous for humans to do
• 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.
• Coco is a test robot
•Comes from the Czech word “robota”
•Other film makers and playwrights used the
term in their own productions
•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
• These are a few examples of the
humanoid robot images of science fiction
• C-3PO
and
R2-D2 from
Star Wars
• Robbie
from • The
The Forbidden Terminator
Planet
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
• Robot soccer
• Robots
must follow the
plan EXACTLY or the
result could be hazardous
• 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.