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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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During The Renaissance, the first robot was imagined as a mechanical German Medieval knight it was designed by...
Michael Angelo (1535)
Leanardo de Vinci (1495)
Thomas Edison (1902)
Benjamin Franklin (1775)
2
Japan's International Robot Exhibit 2016 featured this robot of Leonardo de Vinchi doing what?
Painting
Building more robots
Disciplining robots
Making waffles
3
On October 26th, 2017, why did Saudi Arabia grant this robot 'Sophie' citizenship?
To shore up a gold for their Olympic volleyball squad
To support to futuristic city being built & powered by robots
To show that anyone is able to achieve the Saudi dream!
Making the 30 YO story of the film Short Circut come to life
4
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
Lose the hydrolic limbs
Beat a human team
Qualify for the Olympics in soccer
5
Hitchbot
, a Canadian study that tried to gage the acceptance of social robots had toured Europe but in 2015 he was?
Data not irony won the day
Mugged in New York
Faced a Big Bird smackdown on Sesame Street
Beheaded & vandalized in Philadelphia
6
The word "robot" / "robota" comes from where?
German word meaning "frustrated"
Russian word for "hashtag"
Greek word meaning "information"
Czech word meaning "drudgery"
7
The exhibit allows everyday people to innovate & make your own robot, the most popular idea is?
Teacher-bot
Superhero-bot
Doctor-bot
Baker-bot
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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
Survey the entire moon
Map the bottom of the ocean
Vacation on Mars
9
The first humanoid robot "Electro" debuted in 1939, a 6 foot robot that could could speak...
Up to 700 words
perfectly mimicking the one talking to it
In its own language
10 different languages
10
1997 Mars Pathfinder delivered the
Sojourner
rover one of the most sophisticated robots ever! It gathered all but which?
Discovered water
Took weather & wind readings
Gathered 15 chemical samples of rock & soil
Took over 17,000 photos
11
Hans Moravec founder of the
Robotics Institute
predicts that robots by 2040 will do what?
Rule us like in the Terminator movies
Emerge into a species of their own
Become police officers
Be able to leave the Earth and colonize space
12
In 1727 German philosopher & alchemist Albertus Magnus coins the word "android.” The word "robot" won't be coined until?
1921
1953
1945
1961
13
2020 Disney has taken their Auto Animatronics to a "
whole nother level"
with Stunt-tonics, this could include all but?
Flying entertainment
Bad news for super villains
A new template for flying drones
Stunt robots used in movies instead of actors
14
Over 80% of the worlds robots come from what country?
Japan
The United States
Canada
China
15
In 2004,
Neil Harbisson
, became the first true cyborg having an antenna implanted in his skull, can do all but which?
Interface with wi-fi
See color although color blind
Infra red night vision
Receive data from satellites
16
The main military use for robots are as...
as lookouts
as soilders
as scouts sweeping for roadside bombs
as pilots
17
Real Mars Rover Robot
Opportunity
was operational for nearly 15 years (2003 - 2018), designed & built to last how long?
10 years
13 years
3 months
3 years
18
In the 350 B.C.E. Greek mathematician
Archytas
of
Tarentum
,
is said to have built a mechanical bird powered by what?
bird feces
solar
Jet of steam or compressed air
primitive batteries
19
In 1400 B.C.E.
The Babylonians
developed something that would be considered, one of the earliest robotic devices.
Robotic cat
Water clock
Climbing frog
Robotic scorpion
20
Introduced in 2002 Roomba is a robotic vacuum build w/ a sensory technology how many have sold?
12 million units
10 million
5 million
15 million units
21
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.
Astrobot 2
The Ultimate Droid
Andronaut 2
Robonaut 2
22
As robots are able to reason, think & problem solve on their own, Artificial Intelligence is based on what 1950 test?
The Asimov Test
The Serling Test
The Rorschach Test
The Turning Test
23
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
24
"Automata" 800 B.C.E. mechanized world view challenging Presocratic philosophers to discover the world's natural order
Pythagoras Mathematical Principles
Homer's Odyssey & Iliad
Virgil's The Aeneid
Aristotle The Works of Aristotle
25
1737 French inventor Jacques Vaucanson creates several robotic beings, including a human-sized android flutist & what?
A duck that quacked, walked, ate & pooped
An android crank turner
An android cellist
An android wife
26
Also in 1998
NASA
launches the
Deep Space 1 Autonomous Spacecraft
to test tech. to be used in future missions, it was?
Crewed by murderous cyborgs bend on increasing their life span
Crewed & controlled entirely by robots
Controlled by telepathic robots
Saved from near destruction by robots
27
The number of robots in use today in the US...
500,000
1,000,000
2,000,000
750,000
28
1966 SRI creates
Shakey
, the 1st general purpose mobile robot. It can sense & reason about its surroundings replaced by?
Achey
Flakey
Sam
No limbs
29
2005 Cornell Univ. researchers build a robot made up of a tower of computerized chips. For the first time a robot?
Through the use of magnets self replicated
Didn't have a body
Solved a problem after considering 6,000 possible responses
Logged memory response
30
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
DNA database
Telephone switchboard
Telemarketing
31
In 3500 B.C.E. The Greek myths of
Hephaestus & Pygmalion
incorporate then "modern" idea of what?
Robotic bird
Animated dolls
Talking machines
Intelligent mechanisms
32
1998 world's 1st symbiotic Cyborg, Prof. Kevin Warwick & wife Irena can interact w/ tech in their home as well as what?
Artificial strength, can lift 500 lbs.
Stop a terminator
Take over the general motor functions of the other
Remote wifi defibrillator
33
In 1954 G. Devol & J. Engleberger design the 1st programmable
robot arm, aka:
1st industrial robot who's main goal was?
Not to "lose an arm" on the job
Obey Robo Cop
High Five co workers
Dangerous & repetitive tasks on assembly line
34
In 1998 Scotsman
Campbell Aird
is fitted with the world's first bionic what?
Arm
Eye
Spine
Leg
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Robots were still a
fit of fancy
in 50's. Walt Disney had a fascination w/ them for entertainment. He though of them as?
Three dimensional animation
Anamatronics
Slaves to the mouse
Cheap labor