Domestic robot

Have you ever seen the movie, “Minority Report”? This movie is set in Washington in 2054, 38 years from now. Even though it was released in 2002, we can envision how Washington could look by 2054. The main character of the movie swung his hand in the air to find information. The laboratory is restricted to members passing automatic iris recognition system. The cars can turn on the engine, steer and stop without a human driver. A lot of cars race through the streets, but we don’t need to worry…

The word LEGO is a recognizable word across the United States. All millennials have known what LEGOs are because they are how we showed our ideas. LEGOs allowed us to craft our imaginations into real life master pieces. Before Thanksgiving Break we were given the opportunity build with LEGOs in an English 1230 class. I would not say we were playing with LEGOs because we were relating back to a childhood memory. Our brains are more developed, but do we still have our imagination? The project…

before? If so, you know how important it is to have a strong team. Joshua Davis, author of La Vida Robot, and Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, certainly think so. They both believe that in order to have a strong team, one must use their unique skills to contribute to their team’s success. In La Vida Robot, Davis describes a high school robotics team who use their combined talents to create a robot. This group consisted of four members: Lorenzo Santillan, Oscar Vazquez, Cristian…

as workers who make the vehicles. We focused more on the Electrician part, so the tasks that they usually complete involve the functioning of robots. When they run into problem, they seek help from their supervisor. The working environment that he works in, is inside the General Motors factory building. While inside the factory, I observed how the robots were programmed. It was synced with a remote which gave it tasks to complete. After job shadowing, I am determine to make this my career. The…

life in the hands of somebody else can make anybody nervous. But what about putting your life in the mechanical hands of a robot? Robotic-assisted surgery is becoming more commonplace in medical treatment. As with any new technology, there are a lot of questions about the safety and usefulness of these robots, and how they compare to traditional surgical methods. The usage of robots in surgery has decreased the risk, increased the effectiveness, and changed the dynamics of surgery. To…

In today's society intelligent machines have affected today's world tremendously. These machines have the capability of working at high-speed without stopping. Which can help working facilities to a prosperous and progressive world;therefore,they work better than humans do. Many people say that the growth of high machinery is affecting pay and the population of workers due to the the machines working progress. These people are taking machines as a negative way when actually it is helping…

my first language is not English. The next task given to my team was to build a Lego robot. The assembling instruction was so simple and easy to understand that we could work together and made it without any errors. To enhance work efficiency, our team decided to facilitate to share an assembling work, which I am glad to have done because we could make the robot faster than the other teams. After building the robot, we were given the several programing tasks, which were getting harder and harder…

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,…

Recently we watched in class The Measure of Man from the tv series Star Trek: The next Generation. From this one episode a lot of questions have arisen about the legality of cyborgs in the future. In the case of this episode it is over the android Data and whether or not he has human rights or is just a piece of machinery. At first it seems as if the writer wants to show the Data does not exhbit all the qualties needed to have to make himself human. This is evident by the poker scene at the…

“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…