Robot

Movies, TVs show, and books have provided details of how robot are going to be a threat to society. The science fiction film I, Robot play by the film star Will Smith provides a message to society describing the future of humanity. People can see robots doing a human job. For instance, in the start of the movie we can see a robot delivering a FedEx package to detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) and as the film keep playing we can see robots working as a garbage disposal and dog walking. What…

Ridley Scott and I Robot the 2004 movie directed by Alex Proyas, show how two movies in the same genre of science fiction can explore similar and different themes. The shared themes of creator turning on the creation, technology and the implications on the future and Morality are explored in both the movies, however through stylistic features, plots and dialogue, the films vary from each other. Blade Runner with its dystopian and philosophic charm follows morality more, whereas I Robot has a…

“Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs” by Kevin Kelly and “The Influencing Machines” by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld explain thoroughly the advancement of technology and what it will/can do for the world. Kelly explains the way robots have advanced in order to replace undesirable jobs whereas Gladstone and Neufeld depict how technological advances have changed the way people live. Kelly continues by informing the reader about a robot named Baxter that can do any job…

Jibo: The Social Robot that Revolutionizes Social Artificial Intelligence Introduction Spike Jonze’s “Her” (2013), perhaps alarmingly, perhaps disconcertingly, is coming to life in the form of Jibo, a family computer. A family computer means that it is to be used by a collective of individuals and therefore relate to more humans. “Samantha” is a fictional character which became human as its consumer and “it” fell in love with each other. The film said that robots are becoming humanized, they…

it won’t be long until robots begin to replace us. Many people can say without hesitation that mass unemployment will erupt as companies resort to cheaper and more efficient artificial workers. People like Elon Musk describe how the only way for people to stay relevant is by getting upgraded themselves, adding mechanical aspects to enhance our skills. This second part doesn’t seem too bad, in fact its a sci-fi lovers dream (my dream) of slowly becoming one with robots. However, there isn’t…

way of locking the joints compared to knobs and other clamp mechanisms. Materials For the Robot Arm Construction our group members had a variety of materials to choose from, these materials would eventually be utilized in the building of the Arm including its base and links. The materials which were chosen are mentioned below; 1. Aluminum : Almost every link and part is made up of aluminum in our ‘Robot Arm’. From the base till the end…

autonomous military robots? In 2013, computer scientists, with permission, hacked into a JEEP with the ability to change the speed, disable the breaks, and track the car’s location. If hackers had the ability to take over our weapons with this type of technology, the whole idea would completely backfire. The technology necessary to do this is also completely wireless, and the JEEP was hacked at a distance of ten miles…

writers have presented various views on this issue representing both the support and opposition for technology’s control over humans. In his article “Why Robots Will-and-Must Take Our Jobs,” editor and writer Kevin Kelly strongly defends that humans have control over technology by describing how the primary job of humans is to create more jobs for robots. Journalist Clive Thompson agrees with Kelly in his article “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” that…

In Isaac Asimov’s short story “Reason”, the author provides a detailed account of a robot’s creation and upbringing. The robot, named Cutie was created on earth and shipped to space in separate parts; therefore he has no knowledge of Earth or any other bodies in space. Cutie’s stubbornness and reasoned thinking led one of the scientists to comment, “Oh, Jupiter, a robot Descartes” (p. 51). Cutie has a lot of similarities with René Descartes. Both Cutie and Descartes possess infinite curiosity,…

Aren’t robots just the coolest? Growing up in one of the tiny villages of Belize in the early 2000’s I hardly saw any of the amazing technological advances the world had to offer beside cars and household appliances. At age seven a crane was the coolest machine I had ever seen. Turning eight I saw a plane for the first time, you can imagine how excited was that I actually got the opportunity to fly in one. Upon arriving to America I saw the major role of technology the daily American lifestyle,…