Robotics

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Robotics

• Robotics is the field of knowledge
• and techniques that permit the
• Construction of robots.
• Robots are designed to carry out various tasks in
  place of humans for example, on a factory
  assembly line, or on a mission to Mars or other
  dangerous place.

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Robotics

• Robots are more than simple
• computers they must be able to
• sense and react to changes in their environment.
• The total number of robots in use worldwide
  stands at around 1.4 million
• Japan still remains the world's most robotized
  economy, and is home to around half the 770,000
  robots working in factories around the world.

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Advantages

• They can work for 24hrs a day
• They can do repetitive tasks
• They can do dangerous jobs
• They dont take any breaks or holiday
• They are possibly cheaper in the workplace
• They are possibly faster than humans
• They can carry out a more precise job

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Disadvantages

• They can cause job losses
• If they break down, the task is not carried out
• Expensive to purchase and maintain
• They cant think for themselves

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The Squirrel

• an animatronic desktop squirrel which
• deals with your calls for you. The
• squirrel answers phone calls, works
• out if you are busy or asleep, evaluates how
  important the incoming call is and takes
  messages.
• When it wants to alert its owner to a call, it
  waves and moves about rather than making a sound.
• In previous incarnations, the device has been a
  bunny and a parrot. The idea was to dress the
  technology up as something which we would be
  happy talking down to.

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Repliee Q1Expo the female android

• She has flexible silicone for skin rather
• than hard plastic, and a number of
• sensors and motors to allow her to turn and
  react in a human-like manner.
• She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands
  like a human. She even appears to breathe.
• To program her motion, a computer analysed the
  motions of a human and used them as a template
  for the way Repliee Q1Expo moves.

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Robo-docs

• "Sister Mary" glides between beds and allows the
  controlling doctor to visually examine and
  communicate with a patient from anywhere in the
  world.
• A patient at London's Guy's Hospital has recently
  undergone a live kidney transplant surgery
  carried out by a robot - the UK's first.
• The da Vinci robot has also been used to remove
  bladders and repair hearts.
• While the robots will never replace all doctors
  on ward rounds, they could help relieve some of
  the current
• strains on the NHS.

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Robo-maids

• More and more people are turning to robots to do
  their household chores, such as mowing lawns and
  vacuuming carpets.
• The cordless machine uses ultrasound to avoid
  obstacles and to work out the most efficient
  route around a room it has been set to clean.
• The robots have become more attractive to the
  public because of its cheapness.
• Vacuum cleaner 119 - 1017
• Lawn mower 418
• Kids monitoring robot 600
• Industrial robot average cost 44,887

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