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Here Come the Robots!!!
Here Come the Robots!!!
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A look at the history of robots and their milestones and objectives.
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1737 French inventor Jacques Vaucanson creates several robotic beings, including a human-sized android flutist & what?
An android wife
A duck that quacked, walked, ate & pooped
An android cellist
An android crank turner
2
2005 Cornell Univ. researchers build a robot made up of a tower of computerized chips. For the first time a robot?
Logged memory response
Solved a problem after considering 6,000 possible responses
Through the use of magnets self replicated
Didn't have a body
3
In 1997 the Robocup Tournament was established In Japan. The goal is to do what before the year 2050?
Not pop the ball every time
Qualify for the Olympics in soccer
Lose the hydrolic limbs
Beat a human team
4
In 1954 G. Devol & J. Engleberger design the 1st programmable
robot arm, aka:
1st industrial robot who's main goal was?
High Five co workers
Not to "lose an arm" on the job
Dangerous & repetitive tasks on assembly line
Obey Robo Cop
5
In 1727 German philosopher & alchemist Albertus Magnus coins the word "android.” The word "robot" won't be coined until?
1953
1945
1961
1921
6
Real Mars Rover Robot
Opportunity
was operational for nearly 15 years (2003 - 2018), designed & built to last how long?
3 months
13 years
3 years
10 years
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In 1400 B.C.E.
The Babylonians
developed something that would be considered, one of the earliest robotic devices.
Water clock
Robotic scorpion
Climbing frog
Robotic cat
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1966 SRI creates
Shakey
, the 1st general purpose mobile robot. It can sense & reason about its surroundings replaced by?
Sam
Flakey
No limbs
Achey
9
Also in 1998
NASA
launches the
Deep Space 1 Autonomous Spacecraft
to test tech. to be used in future missions, it was?
Controlled by telepathic robots
Crewed by murderous cyborgs bend on increasing their life span
Crewed & controlled entirely by robots
Saved from near destruction by robots
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1994
Dante II
a spider like robot developed at Carnegie Univ. who's mission is exploring volcanoes & in the near future
Explore alien planets
Vacation on Mars
Map the bottom of the ocean
Survey the entire moon
11
"Automata" 800 B.C.E. mechanized world view challenging Presocratic philosophers to discover the world's natural order
Aristotle The Works of Aristotle
Virgil's The Aeneid
Homer's Odyssey & Iliad
Pythagoras Mathematical Principles
12
Hans Moravec founder of the
Robotics Institute
predicts that robots by 2040 will do what?
Emerge into a species of their own
Become police officers
Rule us like in the Terminator movies
Be able to leave the Earth and colonize space
13
A Human-like robot developed by NASA & GM, is launched into space in 2011, to be regular part of the crew on the I.S.S.
Andronaut 2
The Ultimate Droid
Robonaut 2
Astrobot 2
14
1951 first computer neural network used. It relied on vacuum tubes, motors & clutches. It was designed to do what?
Simulate the way the human brain processes info
Telephone switchboard
Telemarketing
DNA database
15
Introduced in 2002 Roomba is a robotic vacuum build w/ a sensory technology how many have sold?
12 million units
5 million
15 million units
10 million
16
The number of robots in use today in the US...
500,000
1,000,000
750,000
2,000,000
17
Hitchbot
, a Canadian study that tried to gage the acceptance of social robots had toured Europe but in 2015 he was?
Mugged in New York
Faced a Big Bird smackdown on Sesame Street
Data not irony won the day
Beheaded & vandalized in Philadelphia
18
1997 Mars Pathfinder delivered the
Sojourner
rover one of the most sophisticated robots ever! It gathered all but which?
Took weather & wind readings
Discovered water
Gathered 15 chemical samples of rock & soil
Took over 17,000 photos
19
On October 26th, 2017, why did Saudi Arabia grant this robot 'Sophie' citizenship?
To shore up a gold for their Olympic volleyball squad
To show that anyone is able to achieve the Saudi dream!
To support to futuristic city being built & powered by robots
Making the 30 YO story of the film Short Circut come to life
20
During The Renaissance, the first robot was imagined as a mechanical German Medieval knight it was designed by...
Leanardo de Vinci (1495)
Thomas Edison (1902)
Michael Angelo (1535)
Benjamin Franklin (1775)
21
The first humanoid robot "Electro" debuted in 1939, a 6 foot robot that could could speak...
10 different languages
perfectly mimicking the one talking to it
In its own language
Up to 700 words
22
2020 Disney has taken their Auto Animatronics to a "
whole nother level"
with Stunt-tonics, this could include all but?
A new template for flying drones
Bad news for super villains
Flying entertainment
Stunt robots used in movies instead of actors
23
The exhibit allows everyday people to innovate & make your own robot, the most popular idea is?
Teacher-bot
Superhero-bot
Baker-bot
Doctor-bot
24
In 1998 Scotsman
Campbell Aird
is fitted with the world's first bionic what?
Spine
Arm
Eye
Leg
25
The word "robot" / "robota" comes from where?
Russian word for "hashtag"
Greek word meaning "information"
Czech word meaning "drudgery"
German word meaning "frustrated"
26
The main military use for robots are as...
as lookouts
as scouts sweeping for roadside bombs
as soilders
as pilots
27
Robots were still a
fit of fancy
in 50's. Walt Disney had a fascination w/ them for entertainment. He though of them as?
Slaves to the mouse
Cheap labor
Anamatronics
Three dimensional animation
28
The smallest robot is called a nanobot it is the size of what?
a speck of dust
a pea
a dime
a piece of rice
29
In the 350 B.C.E. Greek mathematician
Archytas
of
Tarentum
,
is said to have built a mechanical bird powered by what?
Jet of steam or compressed air
bird feces
primitive batteries
solar
30
Over 80% of the worlds robots come from what country?
China
The United States
Japan
Canada
31
Japan's International Robot Exhibit 2016 featured this robot of Leonardo de Vinchi doing what?
Building more robots
Disciplining robots
Painting
Making waffles
32
1998 world's 1st symbiotic Cyborg, Prof. Kevin Warwick & wife Irena can interact w/ tech in their home as well as what?
Stop a terminator
Artificial strength, can lift 500 lbs.
Take over the general motor functions of the other
Remote wifi defibrillator
33
In 3500 B.C.E. The Greek myths of
Hephaestus & Pygmalion
incorporate then "modern" idea of what?
Talking machines
Intelligent mechanisms
Robotic bird
Animated dolls
34
In 2004,
Neil Harbisson
, became the first true cyborg having an antenna implanted in his skull, can do all but which?
Receive data from satellites
Interface with wi-fi
Infra red night vision
See color although color blind
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As robots are able to reason, think & problem solve on their own, Artificial Intelligence is based on what 1950 test?
The Turning Test
The Serling Test
The Rorschach Test
The Asimov Test