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Last summer, I interned at the educational robotics startup Wonder Workshop. My main project was to create an entertaining new iOS app that kids could use to drive the company’s robot, Dash. The app I created uses Dash’s onboard sounds, lights, array of sensors, and movements to provide an engaging and exhilarating driving experience. YouTube videos spanning advice on icon design to in-app purchase optimization were an invaluable resource for completing the app. As the sole developer of Wonder Rush, I was in charge of everything from programming to marketing. Fortunately, through the stress of deadlines and bugs, YouTube was also there to help me relax with videos of water melons exploding in slow motion and goats singing along to…

technology continues to advance with every passing minute, it seems as if the idea of robots taking over human jobs, whether it be physical or intellectual, no longer seems too far off from reality. While it currently seems likely that machines are on a path to take over human jobs, many still feel uncomfortable with this becoming their reality. Kevin Kelly in his persuasive essay, “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs, assumes that his audience is anti-machine job takeover,…

medical field is the use of robots in surgical procedures. A large contribution to its popularity are due to some fallacies pre established by society, other "educated" arguments look at technical aspects of the robots. Quite a few of the controversies revolve around the topic of labor and how humans with families will benefit, other controversies evaluate the effectiveness and necessity of an autonomous surgery. Lastly there are simply personal questions that people have about robots. Are…

Classify A Robot With the rise of technology the idea of robots and humans merging is not that farfetched. In the book, Genesis by Bernard Beckett, Anax (the student) is taking a test for The Academy, an exclusive in the post apocalyptic Republic. In front of three examiners, she gives everything she has, for her love of history, especially, the life of Adam Forde, a hero of an earlier rebellion. Anax assumes the test is to earn a spot at the Academy as she explains Adam’s imprisonment and…

The year was 2183 and the Aeta corporation was planning something.The corporation was trying to create a new type of robot. A type that could feel human emotions and act on their own without manual input. Other people had tried to make robots with human emotions, but all of them had failed. What made this try different was the discovery of a all new type of metal, radion. It had the property to make itself move on its own. So the corporation tried to get its hands on enough money to buy…

In film Ex Machina the main robotic character is Ava the humans include Nathan and Caleb they are essential in the film. In the play (R.U.R) Radius is one of the important robots also Domin, his creator. Radius is similar to Ava in many different ways. Both have been created a unique way that gives them many abilities. For example, the ability to communicate, reason and be knowledgeable. In Ex Machina the mid range shot between, Nathan and Caleb explain how Ava’s brain was created “Here we have…

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…

A robot is only as reliable and trustworthy as the program that controls it. TruPhysics is an owner-managed company that was founded in 2014 at the Institute of automation and software engineering of University Stuttgart. They have created a unique simulation process. By creating digital twins of the robot and environment and simulating the physical behavior in real-time to generate training data training neuronal networks of the robot. Thus they can handle tasks in individual situations with…

Increasingly nowadays, robots have the potential to interact with people daily, and in the not-so-distant future, they will play an essential role in human society. Defined as a mix of electronics, mechanics and programming, a robot is supposed to “sense” information from its environment through its sensors, analyse and deal with the sensor data, come to a decision and carry out necessary actions or perform something in response, regardless of the robot is autonomous, or guided by a human. Most…

The article I chose to write about is “The Robot Invasion.” This article is informative on how robots could in the future replace humans. It discusses scientific research and break throughs to justify the authors points. Anyone in the working class should read this article, and educate themselves on how far robots have come. “The Robot Invasion” is written by Charlie Gillis. The main idea is to inform people of the change to come in a world pertaining to robots. The authors tone is formal, and…