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Suhit Kodgule MSE: Robotics Personal Statement At this stage of robotics, there is a dissonance among two fields, two pieces that prevent from forming a cohesive whole: artificial intelligence and control theory. While AI suffers from a lack of rigorous mathematical design that can ensure robustness, control theory lacks the cognitive reasoning essential for solving problems in perception or path planning. The problem that I wish to address is this: can we develop a unifying…

Technology has changed our society forever, but it has also disconnected us. In “We Are All Cyborgs Now”, a Ted Talk by Amber Case explains how humans have become Cyborgs, and how disconnected people are from physical human interaction. She explains how technology has evolved since the early years, to the present and how it keeps changing vastly. Amber Case’s stage presence seemed reserved at first, but after a few laughs she lightens up and is possessed by a super confidence feeling. Amber Case…

Rhetorical situation, audience and genre is a key factor in any kind of communication. An example of these three aspects working together can be found in the Associated Press article about the robotic salamander and the Pennisi reading. In the Pennisi reading, its main purpose is to be an informative piece about the similarities to their robotic salamander, to live salamanders in order to imply how water animals first began walking on land. The Pennisi reading was meant for a non-specialist…

1.1 Introduction Robot control is a key fitness for robot makers and a considerable measure of advancement is made to build robot execution, decrease robot cost and present new functionalities. Cases of advancement zones that get huge consideration today are multi robot control, safe control, compel control, 3D vision, remote robot supervision and remote correspondence. The application profits by these improvements are examined and the specialized difficulties that the robot makers meet.…

Technologies are an Additional Value to the Hotel Industry Can you image a hotel fully staffed by robots? The Henn-na Hotel in Nagasaki is the first hotel where technologies bring the guests one step further into the future (“Henn-na Hotel General Concept”).It is the first hotel in the world where the hotel is staffed by robots. The journey starts at the front desk where guests will be welcomed by robots that speak multiple languages that will help to check- in and out. Then, a robotic arm will…

“I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: let the Wookie win,” said C3PO the sassy droid from the Star Wars Saga. ( )Machines, robots, automation, sensors, computers, they are everywhere! The book Rise of the Robots, written by Martin Ford tackles the age-old question if the threat of a jobless future is on the horizon. An Oxford study concluded that nearly half of all occupations in the United States are “potentially automatable” perhaps within “a decade or two.” With today’s technology every job from…

In the Blade Runner, Tyrell says "More human than human" to Deckard. When thinking of humanity many things may come to mind. The meaning of “human” is their ability to reason and grow as a thinker. This is due to the evolution of our brains and their ability to reach different levels of intellect. The big question here is, what does it means to be human? The word “human being” has many definitions; to be human you will need to have anatomical and biological qualities. Which means as humans we…

that human life will be irreversibly transformed…” Many of Kurzweil’s ideas or predictions regarding the changing of our technological world, stemming from Singularity, are amazing albeit radically unnerving at the same time. The notion human and artificial intelligence will be fully integrated within the next 40 years is almost mind blowing; however major advances in genetics, nanotechnology and AI robotics may…

Isaac Asimov In 1942, American author and biochemist Isaac Asimov published a short story entitled Runaround. No one would have guessed that this story would become such a major part of science fiction’s “zero hour”. Along with authors such as Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein, Asimov would help form the foundation of modern science fiction and explore new concepts that would soon become the commonplace of the genre. Overall, Asimov had an undeniable impact on the science fiction genre as…

Hugh Herr’s Ted Talk was a beautiful mixture of presentation and demonstration. As an amputee himself Hugh was able to demonstrate how impactful these devices can be on ones life. He showed impactful video along with demonstrations, that showed the robotic’s ability. Herr argued that attaching things to the limbs, continues to be a problem despite the advancement of technology. His primary argument is that with the further advancement of technology prosthetics will be leaps and bounds above…