Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

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Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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History of Robotics

• Robots was put to use in 1950s, with the
  invention of transistors and integrated circuits.
  Compact, reliable electronics and a growing
  computer industry added brains to the brawn of
  already existing machines. The first
  manufacturing robot was ashtrays.

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What is a Robot?

• Robot is a programmable machine that imitates the
  actions or appearance of an intelligent human. To
  qualify as a robot, it should be able to do at
  least two things
• 1) Get information from its surroundings
• 2) Physically move or manipulate objects

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Robots at Work

• Defusing bombs in Northern Ireland.
• Soldering wires to semiconductor chips
• Assembling cookies for Pepperidge.
• Painting cars at Ford plants.
• Walking into live volcanoes.
• Driving trains in Paris.
• Flying to other planets to explore
• Dive into deep water to recover things

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Significance of Robots

• Robots are taking over jobs that are considered
  too dangerous for humans such as a bomb buster.

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Bomb Buster

• Mini-Andros II Hazardous-Duty Mobile Robot.

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Significance of Robots

• Robots are being used to do things that human
  cant physically such as going to a long distant
  planet like Mars to explore or dive into a very
  deep ocean to recover.

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Planets Rover

• Exploring other planets such as Mars.

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Robots at Work

• Robots can also do boring jobs such as mechanical
  workers.
• Robots are ideal for jobs requiring repetitive,
  precise movements.
• Human workers need a comfortable working
  environment, salaries, coffee breaks, sleep, and
  vacations.

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Chocolates Arranger

• Robotic arm arranging chocolates 20,000 times
  over the course of an eight-hour shift.

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Robots at Work

• 90 of robots work in factories and more than ½
  at work making automobiles.

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Ethical Concerns

• Are there any kind of robots that shouldn't be
  created? Or that you wouldn't want to see
  created? Why?

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Ethical Concerns

• Many people find the use of robotic devices to
  kill or control other human beings is a pathetic
  and catastrophic use of the technology.

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Social Impact of Robotics

• Unemployment is an issue that is constantly
  raised in discussions about the social impact of
  robots.

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Social Impact of Robotics

• Do you think that automation and the development
  of robotics will cause a big unemployment rate to
  the society?
• What should we as a society do for those people
  who lose their jobs?

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Social Impact of Robotics

• Many people concern that more jobs are lost to
  cheap overseas job markets than to robots being
  implemented in existing companies.
• People are designed to use their minds, so they
  should be trained to perform higher level of
  work.

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

• It is the science and engineering of making
  intelligent machines, especially intelligent
  computer programs. It is related to the similar
  task of using computers to understand human
  intelligence.

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But What is Intelligence?

• Intelligence is the computational part of the
  ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying
  kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in
  people, many animals and some machines.

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History of Artificial Intelligence

• The research on AI started after WWII. The
  English mathematician Alan Turing was the first
  to give a lecture on AI in 1947. He decided that
  AI was best researched by programming computers
  rather than by building machines.

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What is the Turing Test?

• The Turing test is a one-sided test through the
  method of teletype. If machine could successfully
  pretend to be human to a knowledgeable observer
  then it should be considered intelligent.

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Cyberspace Bot

• In the online communities known as MUDs created a
  complex computer program named Julia that can
  chat and interact just like a human.

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Julias Capabilities

• Julia is able to talk about sports, keep track
  of players whereabouts, and be able to detect
  flirting messages and handle it appropriately.

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Julia the Bot

• She has special abilities that most humans lack
  such as Julia wonders through a MUD, she creates
  a map of its geography, gives directions for how
  to get from one virtual place to another, and
  relays messages.

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How Julia Works

• Julia responds by looking for particular strings
  of characters in messages typed to her and chat
  with other humans using the language that is
  common to most people.

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Examples 1

• Lenny waves to Julia
• Julia hugs Lenny
• Brandi bites Julia
• Julia considers reporting Brandi to the police
• Julia shuns all vermin like Brandi

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Examples 2
Ace says, So why wont you kiss me,
Julia? Julia says, Sorry, Im not into geeks,
Ace. Ace says, Julia, Im not a geek. Julia
says, Then lose the pocket protector, Ace.
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Examples 3
Space-Ace says, Julia, kiss me. Julia says,
Why, did your sheep leave you? Space-Ace says,
Julia kiss me. Julia says, Take a long walk
through an unlinked exit, Space-Ace.
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Uses of Robots

• Creating robots have endless uses in industry,
  home, assistive care, and a countless number of
  other areas.
• So far, were very successful at creating
  manufacturing robots but we are still years away
  from creating a successful autonomous humanoid
  robot.

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Latest Humanoid Robot

• At Honda, Robots P2 and the newer P3, that do
  what no two-legged robot has done before walk,
  climb stairs, and regain their balance. The Honda
  Humanoid Project is a first step towards
  universal robotsrobots with the flexibility,
  intelligence, and mobility of human beings.

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Honda Humanoid Robot
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Questions?