Robotics

=Integrated Systems: Robotics= toc - //Isaac Asimov's// Three Laws of Robotics
 * 1) A robot **may not injure a human being,** or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
 * 2) A robot **must obey the orders** given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
 * 3) A robot **must protect** **its own existence** as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Latest News:

 * Robots attempt record breaking Pacific Ocean voyage - November 18, 2011
 * Ready for the Robot Revolution - Oct 2, 2011
 * Robot created to test medical skills - Oct 21, 2011
 * Is this a robot or human? - March 2011
 * Robot Teachers invade South Korean classrooms - 2010

More resources:
@http://www.delicious.com/tag/3.11_robotics_AI_exp_sys

**IT Concepts**

 * Input devices eg camera, sensors, microphones
 * Output devices eg claws, wheels, motors, relays, speakers
 * Robot, android, cyborg
 * Sensors eg heat, proximity, magnetism, light, humidity, pH

**Social and Ethical Issues:**

 * Effects of replacing people in with robots in the workplace (social and economic)
 * Using robots in situations that might endanger human beings: ethical decisions
 * Social impact of human interaction with robots: artifical pets, robots for the disabled and elderly
 * Robots in medicine: robotic surgery, computer-controlled prostheses (social impact and ethical considerations)
 * Reliability of robotic devices, particularly in life-threatening situations

**Knowledge of Technology:**

 * Key terms: [|robot], android, cyborg, sensors, [|humanoid]
 * Determining situations where it is more appropriate to use a robot than a human being
 * Inpot and Output peripherals e.g. arms, fingers, voice, wheels
 * Robot design: reasons for/for not having androids
 * Robot capabilities and limitations: vision, touch, sound and movement, processing power

Tasks
Read the resources given here and find at least two more of your own that are more current. Consider the social and ethical issues to do with using robots to explore and travel in space. Discuss three issues and weigh up your answers in a summary paragraph(s). See How to Discuss and Weigh up an Issue, including IB rubric to assess SL, HL, paper 1 part (c) and paper 3 Q3
 * Robots: space exploration and travel:** Javier
 * [|Panel probes space travel future]
 * [|21st Century exploration]
 * [|Mars: Open for business?]

Robots: Home - Javier

Robots: Industry - Alic rss url="feed://news.google.com/news?q=robots+in+industry&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvnsu&um=1&ie=UTF-8&output=rss" link="true" number="5"

"When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to it's mother" (PW Singer). Explore the use of robots in warfare. Discuss three issues and weigh up your answers in a summary paragraph(s). See How to Discuss and Weigh up an Issue, including IB rubric to assess SL, HL, paper 1 part (c) and paper 3 Q3
 * Robots: Warfare**: Alic
 * How 9/11 inspired a new era of robots
 * Robots, war machines
 * Military Robots - Video series Part 1 (see the rest of the series via YouTube as well)
 * How robot drones revolutionised the face of war
 * US Military looks to Robots
 * Military robots and the future of war: TED Talk PW Singer
 * Wikipedia: Military Robot

Robotics Resources

 * Beekman, G. (2006). [|Computer Confluence]. Seventh edition. Prentice Hall. Chapter 15: Is Artificial Intelligence Real? pg 602-604 (See pg 428 as well re automated factory) (See pg 456 re ASIMO and labour saving devices around the home)
 * [|Robot] on Wikipedia
 * [|Robotics] on Wiki Books (good overview and list of resources)
 * [|Redesigning A.I.]
 * [|The Tech Museum]: Robotics, sensing, thinking, acting
 * [|Arrick Robotics] (good links to other resources)
 * Honda [|Asimo], [|Wiki Asimo]
 * Robotics at [|NASA]
 * Machines and Man: [|Ethics and Robotics in the 21st century] this site asks several questions on the ethics of robotics and how it will affect humans. there are reponses to the questions from university professors, artists, students, etc.
 * Entertainment: [|Androids/Robots]
 * Robotic Surgery: [|How Robotic Surgery Will Work] (from How Stuff Works)

Types of Robots
See WikiBooks [|of Robots] healthcare, domestic, military defense, space travel, and manufacturing, household

Asimo


ASIMO Video: Taken at Disneyworld July 2004 by Julie Lindsay

Articles

 * [|Robots could sense shapes with whiskers]
 * Robots take orders in restaurant: A restaurant in China is proving a big hit with customers, and it's not just because of the food being dished up. Instead it's the way the food is being served that's filling chairs and tables with hungry people, with robots replacing waiters and waitresses. The robot shows customers to their tables, they place their order into his microphone and their food is cooked. At the moment the robot hands over to a person to make the meals, but in future robot chefs could be in the kitchen. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6030000/newsid_6035600/6035633.stm
 * [|Robots and androids] are employed as receptionists and porters at a Japanese hospital
 * [|Mini Robots] treat ailments from the inside
 * [|Walking robot steps up the pace]: A humanoid robot is teaching itself to walk and eventually run around a California research lab.

Online Videos
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