Robots in Disguise

In the movie Wall-E, the “Hero” Wall-E, is a robot that was made to clean up Earth’s garbage after Earth had no way to sustain any life on Earth. The role Wall-E plays in the movie is a hero because he had found the last plant life on Earth, it was a call to action. Eva is the robot that meets Wall-E while he’s making squares out of garbage. Eva has a deadly personality that also makes her quick witted. Eva’s role in the story is an ALLY and HERO because she assists Wall-E in saving the…

Driverless cars - they feel their surroundings with such techniques as radar, lidar, GPS, odometry, & computer vision. They update their maps based on sensory input, allowing the vehicles to keep track of their position, even in changing conditions, or in a uncharted environment. These machines have control systems that are capable of analyzing sensory data to distinguish between different cars on the road. Now, some people do not exactly support these vehicles. ‘Oh, they’ll destroy the…

How would it feel to be part of a dystopian world where everything is controlled by the governments trying to make it utopian? Just imagine yourself being controlled like robots and living in a place where independent thoughts and freethinking are not allowed. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is set in a dystopian society. The giver has two adaptations, a movie, and a book. Both the movie adaptation and book adaptation share many similarities and some differences. There are many and some of them are…

In his essay “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must- Take Our Jobs,” Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine focuses not on the economic effect automations have caused for the countless number of laborious jobs, but on how robotics have created millions of jobs for people in entirely new fields. Kelly, argues that robots have become a revolutionary outbreak since more can get done in a timely matter. But Kelly’s argument is completely bias because even though Kelly brings up many…

For example, technology is advancing every year, things are getting more complex. New phones are being made, new computers, new things are being invented and advanced as we speak.Soon in the near future we won’t even have to walk, we’ll have robots that will do everything for us. There are positive things, and disastrous things that come with the advancement of technology. External influences in technology have more negative impacts than positive. In the article, Talking To Our Devices it…

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…