Debate

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Debate 5

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• Con
• Tze Kwang and Ben Charrow

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Debate Topic

• Resolved, that little of value has ever come from
  robots that do not imitate life. The only
  valuable approach to creating robots is
  biologically-inspired, following the principle
  that when it looks like a duck and it quacks like
  a duck it must be a duck.

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Definition

• Biologically Inspired Robot
• A robot that imitates/emulates a living organism.

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What We Are Saying

• Don't limit ways of solving a problem
• Biologically-inspired robotics is not the only
  way
• Many robots are built to do things biological
  organisms cannot do

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The Roomba

• Cleans Floors
• Random movement that is justified statistically
• Uses wheels

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Welding
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Robotic Surgery
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• http//www.darpa.mil/dso/thrust/biosci/biodynotics
  .htm
• http//www.jara.jp/e/h/statistics03.html