FIRST Robotics Competition

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 audience, but also for audiences interested in science or…

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.…

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 store the guest its luggage and, finally, a guest could enter its…

is a fad whose buzz will fizzle out like the 80’s mullet hairstyle. Mechanization, computerization, robotics is more practical industries where profit grows with rapid and efficient flow. However, in the blackjack industry where the backbone of the business is pure customer service, robots will only play a small role. Sitting down and playing a few hands of blackjack with C3P0 would be fun at first but quickly lose its…

To modernize the Odyssey, I believe that we should have a new, creative movie with a whole different setting and time period. My modern movie proposal is one that includes minorities and a new main character to give the viewers a new adventure to experience that still ties in with the book. The title of this movie is The Underwater Voyage because my movie is focused on the main character’s journey back to her home. This new character is named Odisia, which I hope closely resembles the original…

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…

He goes in and at first sees nothing but then as he looks in a closet full of robots one bursts out and attacks him “Power off Power off” says Francis it continues to attack until he manages to corner it then smash it with a pipe. “ What was wrong with that robot it didn’t…

My first impression of this artwork is that it is very creative and it has an unique oldfangled design of a robot. The artist used a great number elements of line the radio speaker design use vertical lines which are bold and thick . The antenna line are diagonal line that are long and thin. The curved lines are thick, bold, and smooth these lines creates the facial features and head of the robot figure. Each individual three dimensional shape of the radio and TV gives the artwork a robot…

Similar to the film, "The Machines that Changed the World", I found the “The Rise of Personal Robots” by Cynthia Breazeal to be extremely informative, captivating, but also unlike anything I’ve seen before. Although robots have been around for countless of years, robots have always interacted with things not people. Throughout the short film, Breazeal introduces us to several robots that her and her team of graduate students built. Breazeal’s ultimate goal was to create a robot that could…

It has been nearly 100 years since our robotic engineering took a substantial step into mankind. We now have no man to render appreciation or any man to recognize anymore, our world isn’t human anymore. Life is not ruled by us anymore, not since the placement of robotic engineering. The inventor, Simon E. Tomson and our ruler, in my eye’s did not lift our societies issues and problems with life. He did not fix or employ any sort of “better life”, he replicated life as something we don’t need to…