Essays on Robots

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The world wide use of robots and the application of robotics science is not a new phenomenon. Over two centuries ago, more than 70% of Americans worked at farms. With the rapid change in technology during the period of the Industrial Revolution, a new era began; The Age of Robots. A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial being that is controlled by a computer program or electronic circuitry. The technology that deals with the construction, application and operation of robots and their operating computer system is called Robotics. With the advancement in the science Continue reading...

Part A

The video of cognitive robot XCR-1, featured five characteristics of the sentient beings, and demonstrated a machine too can learn simple associations. The robot XCR-1 is a three-wheeled robot, without an envelope that gives a shape and form, with gripping hands, with multiple sensory capabilities and with a capacity to produce words. The robot has limited motor capacity (gripping, moving forward/ backward, talking and touching), but has excellent sensory systems for visual, auditory, touch, pain and tap stimulus. Obviously it has been created for studies and experiments in the field of machine learning. The experiment pioneered by Dr. Haikonen Continue reading...

Introduction

Rossum's Universal Robots is a play written by Karel Capek's in 1921. The play introduces us to the world of robots that are machine, which acts like human beings. The play depicts that although robots will initially be beneficial to people, at some point they will dominate the world and turn against people. The play exports different issues that could arise if artificial life were created.

The play starts by a young woman named Helen a representative humanitarian organization visiting a remote island to liberate a poorly oppressed robot. Helen has a feeling that robots are human beings with Continue reading...

Within the health care industry, a unanimous drop has been recorded. Ideally, the recorded backdrop is in the form of the health care reforms, as well as level of medical efficiency in the whole world. Normal livelihood and health care are some of the most essential element of elevating poor economic status hence reducing the level of poverty. Medical care is one of the sectors that demands rapid development strategies since the efficiency of patient care is deteriorating with time (Frey 23). An intensive study indicates that there have emerged renowned technological firms, which re health oriented. These medical Continue reading...

Robots are automated or simulated agents that are normally electro-powered technologies operating under the guidance of computer databases or electronic integrated circuits. They can be either semi-independent or autonomous ranging from such humanoids as ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) of the Honda company. An ever-growing amount of robots are being built and created for interaction with human beings in particular settings (Dautenhahn, 2003).
In the industrialized world, the population of the elderly is projected to grow appreciably in the course of the next twenty years. With this growth, countries such as Japan and the United States of America Continue reading...

People always were, are and will see first with an expectation. The main reason for this is that not all of us has a required experience to make realistic prognoses. However most of the people do not want realistic, dream world always looks better than the real one. In dreams we can complete any work without required knowledge, we can get anything without putting enough effort to it. Unfortunately seeing with expectation will not help to resolve any issue while experience is the knowledge that you can rely on in any difficult situation.
I never imagined how much work Continue reading...

Essay 1

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The concerns made by the author of this article have to do with the environmental impact of creating artificial snow and maintaining snow solid without melting. Maintaining the snow for indoor or outdoor skiing games requires a lot of energy. For example, Dubai, despite being located in a region with a desert-like environment, maintains a 22,500 square meters snow-covered area for sports. It is estimate that about 1000MWh of energy are used annually to maintain the building at a temperature below the freezing point. The fact that the electricity is generated from natural gas means greenhouse gases Continue reading...

I am applying to the University of Texas at Austin, as a transfer student to Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department. I accept as true that human intellect flourishes in a period of relaxation, following strenuous thinking. That is why I decided to pursue the double major of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Programming is not just about making a machine to do something, but it is about bringing together a cluster of technologies to work in marvelous ways. I realized that, just like a painter with its brush and canvas, a programmer is more limited by its skill Continue reading...

Sherry Turkle researched on the authenticity in the age of digital companions. Computers have become the nearest companions of children since their invention. Programs used like the Joseph Weizenbaum’s computer program Eliza has been shown to have strong emotional effect to the users. However, the use the program at some point was considered immoral since it did not understand the human story told and could not show human care. This is because empathy, love, care, etc. that are attributes of humans cannot be applied in human-robot interaction. It has been shown that children who grow up using computational Continue reading...

Essay

Abstract
This paper explores the future of medicine in the context of modern digital technologies and inventions. Specifically, this paper analyzes Daniel’s Kraft’s presentation at the Maastricht Conference in 2012. In this essay, the researcher’s opinions and suggestions are presented and commented, and also their advantages and disadvantages are explored. Daniel Kraft is speaking about helping people with disabilities with robotic arms and legs, retina eyes. He is focused on digital diagnosing, creating apps for iPhone, visiting doctors via skype, regenerative medicine, robotic surgery, stem cell trials, perspectives of the oncology treatment, etc.
Keywords: digital medicine, Continue reading...

Subsequent to technological advancements in the field of medicine, several machines helpful in increasing the rate and effectiveness of the cure have since been discovered. The most profound discovery in the field of surgery is the one that involved the introduction of Doctor Robot. This machine undertakes the operation procedure without the presence of a physician in the operation room but essentially in the robot control room. From the Fortune article entitled Meet your next surgeon: Dr. Robot, it is apparent that the robot surgeon was developed subsequent to deep research and an insightful consultation among the experts of Continue reading...

Factors that Influence Emotions

Human emotions are variable from time to time depending on various factors. Gender is one of the distinguishing factors that affect human emotions. Women tend to be more emotional than their male counterparts are. This is mainly due to hormonal imbalances and variations that occur during menses. At such times, they tend to be moody and easily irritable. However, in some instances men can be moody depending on other sociological factors. Culture is a crucial factor in determining one’s mood ((Berry, 2004)). This is especially important since it shapes one’s general mood from an early age to Continue reading...

- Introduction
While humanoid robots are often thought of as robots that look and move exactly like people, this is not necessarily the case. The idea of a humanoid robot includes robots that are completely identical to people, of course, but also encompass any type of robot that has a vaguely humanoid shape. These robots are made to have a body shape that looks like a human body.
There is something psychologically enthralling about robots that share humanoid body shapes; they interest human beings and can form bonds with them. Although current-day robotics are not good enough to create Continue reading...

The “Cyborg Manifesto” is a story that deals with social feminism in the late twentieth century in relation to science and technology. There are numerous outcomes of what could happen next, but in my opinion, what will happen next is the return to the previous phase of human existence.
Albert Einstein said that the last world war will be fought with sticks and stones and I support that opinion about where the future is taking us. Of course there is a lot of time before that, but in general the world has to be destroyed in order for it Continue reading...

Philosophy

The field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics is called artificial consciousness or machine consciousness or even synthetic consciousness. This field was formed with the purpose to "define that which would have to be synthesized were consciousness to be found in an engineered artifact". When different parts of the brains, which are named neural correlates of consciousness of the NCC, interoperate then they generate consciousness, as defined by the hypothesis of neuroscientists. There exist various supporters of artificial consciousness who are of the belief that the possibility of constructing machines, for instance computer systems, which follow the interoperation Continue reading...

Artificial intelligence is the essence of the use of software that is programmed to perform tasks that would have been performed by human being. There has been advancement in technological usage in the current world. According to the scientists if this continues untamed it would in the end pose a threat to the human intelligence. Although the human mind functions differently with that of a robot, scientists have pointed the fear of a takeover by robots.
Arguably, the whole idea of artificial intelligence is spurred by scientific fiction in which it tries to come out and program software that Continue reading...

Robots are automatic machines that may resemble an animal, or human being programmed to perform tasks a task. These robots resemble a human being and can replace him in all aspects. They are computer programmable hence they take commands from a computer and execute tasks as per command. There are moral and social concerns toward robots.
Robots are power driven. They need energy to drive or execute the command given. A robot consumes energy based on its size, the function their function. These need to feed themselves with the energy as they require. Solar panel, electricity or even a Continue reading...

Philosophy

Introduction

GOFAI is a mindset or an architecture that includes the symbolic representation that can also be explained as the expressions of a certain language. It also includes a thought behind all these expressions like basic frame works or ideas that may contradict with each other. There must be millions of facts that are arranged according to the knowledge and a thought behind that knowledge. GOFAI can also be explained as a description of thoughts (Hutchins, n.d).

Description

There are some models that have been designed for the purpose of playing role as alternatives. A model that has been established Continue reading...

PART 1:

- Describe Peter Norvig’s vision.
Peter Norvig’s vision is about making learning a social task rather than an individual task. The socialization, however, is not among people alone, but with machines or robots. In this case, it will be the socialization with computers and computer programs. Norvig is thinking of a team that is composed of robots or computers and people. In this team the people make the final decision while the robots are consulted. Both obtain as much data as possible to learn.
- How has learning changed?
Learning has changed from coming up of new Continue reading...

The article talks about how technology, namely automation, is replacing people. If you visit a car factory you will see robot arms welding doors onto cars, and not people, although people may be sitting in the control booth above the floor waiting to intervene if something goes wrong. While the article is not suggesting that people go and smash all the computers and resist the rise of the machines, it does suggest that there has been a widening gap between productivity and employment. In other words, starting in 2000, according to data from the United States Labor statistics, productivity Continue reading...

Will you be replaced by an app?

Under the cost minimization rule, the firm only employs purely labour human labour when the marginal physical product (MPP) of having a machine in place of the human labour is very low. In this sense, it happens when a firm finds it more cost effective to have human labour i.e. the marginal physical product of the worker is higher than the marginal physical product of the machine. When the marginal cost of operating a machine exceeds the marginal revenue product of that same machine, then the firm will automatically utilize only human labour since the marginal cost will be Continue reading...

Television is ubiquitous in America Culture. The average American watches am average of five hours of television every day. This is rather significant, because this means that if a person works full-time, then odds are they spend only slightly less time watching television than they do earn their livelihood. People work in order to maintain their lives, and if those lives outside of work consist of watching television, then it seems the cultural answer to the question, “Why are you working so hard?” seems to be, “So that I can watch TV.” From a profit perspective, TV programming is Continue reading...

Artificial intelligence (AI) saw a dramatic change in the recent years. In the recent years, the use of logic-based reasoning led to the success of artificial intelligence with least resemblance to the initial concept . The article exemplifies the scenario of a ware house that belongs to diaper.com. In the warehouse, hundreds of robots perform the work of placing the items in a logical sequence and filling an order. Though the robots are not smart and possess no qualities of humans, they present a new cutting edge in the field of artificial intelligence. In the recent times, instead of recreating Continue reading...

The two science fiction short stories written by the prominent American writers Isaac Asimov and Avram Davidson are the examples of brilliancy in their genre. Both, “The Golem” written by Davidson in 1955 and “Reason” written by Asimov in 1941 share similar themes and details of the plot, although the settings and the development of the stories are very different. The stories gradually unfold the intricacies of the encounters of humans and intelligent robots, whose views on the world are very different. The meeting of two dissimilar kinds of mind produces difficulties both for the robots and people, and Continue reading...

Summary and Synthesis of the Article, “How Social Distance Shapes Human-Robot Interaction”

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Summary and Synthesis of the Article, “How Social Distance Shapes Human-Robot Interaction”

Summary

According to the study conducted by Yunkyung Kim and Bilge Mutlu, it was discovered that proxemic distance had an influence on human-robot interaction. In fact, the research study focused on the relationships that people might develop with robots that are created to play “different social roles” as they pertain to distance; and the study was also designed to determine how the different aspects of social distance form individuals’ experiences with and “acceptance of robots” [ 4]. The research conducted by Kim and Mutlu acknowledged Continue reading...

The poem encompasses an issue pertaining to the unclear interpretations of her work titled Incubation: A Space for Monsters. The issue of confusion was addressed through poetry by describing analogies that best describes the meaning of the book’s context. The arguments presented in the reading include descriptions given to the different areas in the book such as comparing an excerpt from a George Clooney film with a female in red dress. The female character described in the reading embodies the characteristics of the reading, which non-familiar readers would find confusing. To conclude the argument about what the girl Continue reading...

Having graduated from Queens University with a degree in economics and history and having to obtain a Masters in broadcasting journalism, Adam Kaminsky was in a position to make the solution required. Through his advanced knowledge in journalism, he could use the magazine advertisements. This is because he would be in a situation where he could control the marketing environment since he had advanced knowledge in this marketing field. The magazine advertisement would be a possible solution in essence that the magazine recommended is accessed by people in senior positions who may provide a chance to expand the business Continue reading...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the crucial aspects of present robotics as grounds for their future development. The essay considers different types of robots and their application, main components and figures, advantages and disadvantages of robotics, the role in popular media and, of course, their potential.
Undoubtedly, robotics is a natural logical extension of technology as a phenomenon. The intention to automate all work gradually replaces a human from many areas of its activity, providing in return new opportunities for exerting efforts, namely watching movies, scuba diving, computer games, etc. The part of a general labor Continue reading...

Scientists claim that people may no longer be needed as a workforce due to the development of the modern technologies. Technological growth may leave without work millions of people, and significantly increase the level of unemployment in the world. Experts of the leading European companies in the field of artificial intelligence convinced that robots can replace not only the low qualified staff but also the highly qualified professionals. According to the scientist’s general opinion, 2055 was called as a milestone in technological progress (Taylor 185). However, artificial intelligence developers constantly hasten the time when the robots will replace Continue reading...

Psychology

Summary
Notably, scholars have studied the human brain with efforts to understand the wonders behind its functionality. Over recent decades, scholars in the field of psychiatry have discovered groundbreaking understanding of the human brain. One of those areas is in the field of cognitive and motor brain mechanisms. Hesslow (2002) suggests that there is a close connection between imaging and perception in how the brain reacts. It can be explained through the simulation hypothesis, which states that thinking consists of simulated interaction with the environment and rest upon three assumptions. The assumptions include simulation of actions, simulation of perception, Continue reading...

In most automotive assembly lines, wheel loading is usually done to the end of the production line just before the test drive. Though mounting of wheels can be done with a human being, an automated process is more preferred due to the improved efficiency. The use of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) allow for complex control of automated processes and easy troubleshooting when issues arise in the system. (Vosough and Vosough, 41).
The desired automated wheel assembly system involve a robot whose work is pick up a wheel from the wheel station, approach the conveyor on which the car placed; Continue reading...

This article will look at the innovation in the area of surgery. Surgery is a practice that started many years ago. This can be associated with the brain surgery during Roman empire and Egyptian activities in 3,000 B.C. since this time there has been innovation and improvement in the medical field of surgery. The researchers came up with different methods to solve the medical surgery procedure without many risks. The introduction of robotic technology in operating room presents huge success in the manner in which surgery is carried out. The success is both from a technological point of Continue reading...

In 1985, Donna Haraway published a seminal essay “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”. While it was greatly intended to discuss like a metaphorical disclosure, many futurists and feminists were inspired by its more technoprogressive and literal interpretation of her message. This essay became a major influence on the society’s conception of postgenderist theory, and inspired many other articles like “Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary” and “Overcoming Gender” and "Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary" (sentientdevelopments, 2010).
In her essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”, Haraway issued feminists a challenge to start engaging in politics Continue reading...

Metropolis, a seminal film which was directed by the German director, Fritz Lang, is concerned with cultural and political issues. The societal issues which have been raised in the film are a commentary on the political scenario of Germany at the time of the making. The film does not stop at that only and goes on to give an insight into the future that impends the nation. The film criticizes the bourgeoisie practices and seeks the way to stand up against the oppressive forces which subjugate the common workers of the society.
The film is a vehement appeal to Continue reading...

The term appropriation is a technique used to describe a character that is taken from its environment and placed in another unfamiliar environment without any significant changed done to them. The book blood and guts is about a young Mexican girl Jenny, who leaves her home town of Merida in search of a new life in the United States. During her former years in Mexico, she has a sexual relationship with her father who she considers to be many things including her spouse. In the period following her affair with her father, he starts losing interest in her after Continue reading...

1. Introduction
1.1 Abstract
Contained in this paper is a report on a research conducted on the development of an assistive arm robot for patients with Cerebral Palsy. Presented in the report is a brief description of the disease, a historical perspective of the use of assistive robots and the general description of the research together with the challenges faced during execution of the research and a conclusion which carries recommendations for further research in the same topic.
1.2 Background
Cerebral Palsy is a devastating disease that causes unremitting muscle destruction/impairment. The disease begins at childhood but it impacts Continue reading...

AEIS 111 #3 draft

Can high-tech machines replace humans?
Since the early 19th century, humans have competed for jobs with high-tech machines. Machines and computers seem to be wining this battle and have been eating into manufacturing jobs for several decades (Myers, 2013). In factories and manufacturing industries, robots can use the resource better than humans. In addition, fully autonomous robots today can mimic human emotions and even hold a conversation with a human being (Utne, 2011). This means that technology is increasingly threatening the roles and functions of the human beingWith the extent of what high tech machines can do today, they Continue reading...

AUDIENCE ANALYSIS

The target audience is the groups of patients and their guardian with complicated ailments that require operation at the clinic. They want a surgical procedure that is safe, less painful, and takes less time to heal with minimal scarring. This population ranges in age from approximately 20 for college going teens to 80 for retired and semi-retired elderly members. The gender ratio is approximately 50% male and 50% female. All the audience is knowledgeable of normal surgical procedures and posses at least a high school diploma, though many adults have a college degree. The group comprise of many different Continue reading...

Section 1: "Introduction: Performing The Digital Body -- A Ghost Story" by Theresa M. Senft

Senft introduces the internet era interactions with a resounding “connection between the internet, contemporary feminism and theories of performance.” She introduces the dilemma faced by feminists in describing what a “body” is and what it is not. With a lot of digital communication and devices around, traditional definitions are taking on new meanings. Efforts to bring the “more natural “animal” body” meaning has been faced with criticism, as some people view this as bringing back the meanings that denying some people their human rights.
The new “body” is faced with challenges as questions of whether cyborgs can contract AIDS, Continue reading...

Introduction

Ever since the early 19th century, humans have competed for jobs with high-tech machines. Machines and computers seem to be wining this battle and have been eating into manufacturing jobs for several decades (Myers, 2013). They have proved faster, cheaper and offer greater precision than human line workers. This has led to the loss of many jobs by human worker as a result of being outdone by machines. In factories and manufacturing industries, robots can be programmed to perform tasks such as spray-painting and joining of parts with better resource outcomes than those attained by humans. In addition, fully Continue reading...