1. This week I read about very small robots that could work and live like an actual living organisms. Its cool because these can go inside the human body because of there size. they took these traits from unicellular water organisms. They believe that they can make these robots so they can go to certain parts of your body to deliver medicines and vaccines. It'll be like taking a pill but that pill would be fill with thousands of robots that carry different medicines and specialize with certain body parts and diseases. there robots are called "soft robots" because of their nature. they are still in the process of creating these but they are working very fast.
2. Last night I was watching the movie "Terminator" with my family, I realized today about the robots and that I have all these level one assignments due tomorrow, so I decided to it based on this movie. So I decided to do some research on it but found that there was a robot called the terminator that sounded interesting to me. In this video I watched the "Terminator" prosthetic limb robot is being showcased. The robot reacts to the muscle movements and can perform 8 different hand movements which can help people who have lost their arms type, hold objects, and grip doors with he strength of a regular arm. This new robot can help change the lives of people who have lost limbs. This robot unlike other limb robots reacts to the muscles unlike buttons which truly makes it the most advanced prosthetic limb. People who were now unable to work after losing one of their limbs may once again work with this new advanced technology. The prosthetic limb is as stable as a regular hand giving it enough reliability to pour a drink and do most of the functions of a regular hand. This breakthrough technology is also being used in legs allowing humans to walk and even run again. This technology will also give the people who lost limbs the simple freedoms again. Technology like this can also be used for people who serve for our country that would like to continue their service after losing a limb.
3. I watched a video on a roving robot. It is able to overcome many obstacles and is extremely strong. It is able to be dropped 15 feet, go down stairs, and even go over glass. Right now it is in production for the army. This robot is extremely well suited for many tasks. Its control panel is wearable and the bot is lightweight it is also very simple to use. This is a great advance in the military field. The bot could be used to scope out buildings for any dangers before people enter the scene. This bot could be a great advance in the field of firefighters as well. After some tweaks and possible fire proofing the bot would be able to go into fires and stay below the smoke. This could mean it could find any people left inside the house such as young children or pets. Without having firefighters to search all around in great danger.
4.In this video, there is a new robot developed by Harvard engineers that camouflages itself. The robot moves by air being pumped through it and makes absolutely no noise as it moves. The robot changes color by the liquid pumped into it. This robot was inspired by octopus that camouflage themselves to avoid predators. This new camouflage robot can be used many ways to better the way we live. The robot can be used in military search and rescue missions because it can travel undetected. It can also be used for surveillance on enemies during war because it is very small. This robot, for the majority, will be used to help the United States defense. It also can be used for regular tasks that not being seen are part of.
5.This week i learned about "machine learning." The field of machine learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and engineering. The ability to extract useful insights from vast amounts of weak and incomplete information is not only fueling the current interest in "big data," but has also enabled rapid progress in more traditional disciplines such as computer vision, estimation, and robotics, where data are available but difficult to interpret. Bioengineers often face similar challenges, as many molecular pathways are still poorly characterized and available data are corrupted by random noise.
Using machine learning, these challenges can now be overcome by modeling the dependencies between random variables and using them to extract and accumulate the small amounts of information each random event provides.
6.Today i did another article on robotic surgery.. Robotic surgery is performed by a surgeon who controls instruments inside the body via computer, often from a room adjacent to the patient. Surgeons lose some of the tactile feel they use to make certain judgments, but many say they gain a larger range of motion, as robotic arms and "hands" can do things that human arms and hands cannot. It is also easier to learn robotic surgery, said by many surgeons.
7.Today i read about a manufacturing robot. 'bin-picking' has been a problem with which all researchers have been grappling for many years. The current pick-and-place robots are very good at picking up parts arranged in specific positions, but not if they are unsorted in a box. Now we can use a drawing to tell the robot which part they must pick up. We teach the robot to recognize the part and its position in the box, so that it can grip it accurately and pick it up, regardless of its position in the box. This can effect society because it will eliminate the jobs of people who set the pieces up so the robots can pick it up with ease.
8.So today i did not want to read an article. I want to summarize almost all of the assignments. Robots are taking over the places of people and will one day surpass human capabilities. They are taking over every job, slowly but surely, and are leaving more people un-employed than ever, especially manufacturing robots, but even drones or anything remotely controlled is taking a job a person could be doing. I think people need to slow down and realize this, I believe this could cause another great depression, (i saw the movie "jack Ryan, shadow recruit") but that made me realize how possible it is we could go into another one.
9. Today I watched a video. In this video General Motors engineers worked side by side with NASA engineers to create a humanoid robot that would act as a robot. This humanoid robot is being designed to perform human functions in space easier then humans like collecting data. If they were able to perfect this robot, there would be a major breakthrough in space technology. Humans in space have trouble from lack of oxygen and the gravity. Robots do not need to breath and would be able to walk on for example the moon with ease collecting data. Robots could also be placed on surfaces that humans could not go on or dare to. It would be a lot better to lose a robot then to lose an actual person. Robots can also help operators with dull tasks that will last for long periods of time. The robots can perform hard tasks like writing.
2. Last night I was watching the movie "Terminator" with my family, I realized today about the robots and that I have all these level one assignments due tomorrow, so I decided to it based on this movie. So I decided to do some research on it but found that there was a robot called the terminator that sounded interesting to me. In this video I watched the "Terminator" prosthetic limb robot is being showcased. The robot reacts to the muscle movements and can perform 8 different hand movements which can help people who have lost their arms type, hold objects, and grip doors with he strength of a regular arm. This new robot can help change the lives of people who have lost limbs. This robot unlike other limb robots reacts to the muscles unlike buttons which truly makes it the most advanced prosthetic limb. People who were now unable to work after losing one of their limbs may once again work with this new advanced technology. The prosthetic limb is as stable as a regular hand giving it enough reliability to pour a drink and do most of the functions of a regular hand. This breakthrough technology is also being used in legs allowing humans to walk and even run again. This technology will also give the people who lost limbs the simple freedoms again. Technology like this can also be used for people who serve for our country that would like to continue their service after losing a limb.
3. I watched a video on a roving robot. It is able to overcome many obstacles and is extremely strong. It is able to be dropped 15 feet, go down stairs, and even go over glass. Right now it is in production for the army. This robot is extremely well suited for many tasks. Its control panel is wearable and the bot is lightweight it is also very simple to use. This is a great advance in the military field. The bot could be used to scope out buildings for any dangers before people enter the scene. This bot could be a great advance in the field of firefighters as well. After some tweaks and possible fire proofing the bot would be able to go into fires and stay below the smoke. This could mean it could find any people left inside the house such as young children or pets. Without having firefighters to search all around in great danger.
4.In this video, there is a new robot developed by Harvard engineers that camouflages itself. The robot moves by air being pumped through it and makes absolutely no noise as it moves. The robot changes color by the liquid pumped into it. This robot was inspired by octopus that camouflage themselves to avoid predators. This new camouflage robot can be used many ways to better the way we live. The robot can be used in military search and rescue missions because it can travel undetected. It can also be used for surveillance on enemies during war because it is very small. This robot, for the majority, will be used to help the United States defense. It also can be used for regular tasks that not being seen are part of.
5.This week i learned about "machine learning." The field of machine learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and engineering. The ability to extract useful insights from vast amounts of weak and incomplete information is not only fueling the current interest in "big data," but has also enabled rapid progress in more traditional disciplines such as computer vision, estimation, and robotics, where data are available but difficult to interpret. Bioengineers often face similar challenges, as many molecular pathways are still poorly characterized and available data are corrupted by random noise.
Using machine learning, these challenges can now be overcome by modeling the dependencies between random variables and using them to extract and accumulate the small amounts of information each random event provides.
6.Today i did another article on robotic surgery.. Robotic surgery is performed by a surgeon who controls instruments inside the body via computer, often from a room adjacent to the patient. Surgeons lose some of the tactile feel they use to make certain judgments, but many say they gain a larger range of motion, as robotic arms and "hands" can do things that human arms and hands cannot. It is also easier to learn robotic surgery, said by many surgeons.
7.Today i read about a manufacturing robot. 'bin-picking' has been a problem with which all researchers have been grappling for many years. The current pick-and-place robots are very good at picking up parts arranged in specific positions, but not if they are unsorted in a box. Now we can use a drawing to tell the robot which part they must pick up. We teach the robot to recognize the part and its position in the box, so that it can grip it accurately and pick it up, regardless of its position in the box. This can effect society because it will eliminate the jobs of people who set the pieces up so the robots can pick it up with ease.
8.So today i did not want to read an article. I want to summarize almost all of the assignments. Robots are taking over the places of people and will one day surpass human capabilities. They are taking over every job, slowly but surely, and are leaving more people un-employed than ever, especially manufacturing robots, but even drones or anything remotely controlled is taking a job a person could be doing. I think people need to slow down and realize this, I believe this could cause another great depression, (i saw the movie "jack Ryan, shadow recruit") but that made me realize how possible it is we could go into another one.
9. Today I watched a video. In this video General Motors engineers worked side by side with NASA engineers to create a humanoid robot that would act as a robot. This humanoid robot is being designed to perform human functions in space easier then humans like collecting data. If they were able to perfect this robot, there would be a major breakthrough in space technology. Humans in space have trouble from lack of oxygen and the gravity. Robots do not need to breath and would be able to walk on for example the moon with ease collecting data. Robots could also be placed on surfaces that humans could not go on or dare to. It would be a lot better to lose a robot then to lose an actual person. Robots can also help operators with dull tasks that will last for long periods of time. The robots can perform hard tasks like writing.