If there was a chance you could have a robot, what would you use it for? Would you have do your homework? Clean your room? Do all your chores? Play basketball with you or program it so it can help you win every chess game you engage in?
Well, as science fictiony as it may sound, it may be a real possibility within your young life to actually have a personalized robot, and maybe to purchase one via a mail order. Can you imagine? A mail order robot!
Well, today it was announced that a Pentagon-funded humanoid named Atlas has made its first public appearance. It is a hydraulic powered machine equipped with laser and stereo vision systems. The hope is that someday, not too far in the distant future, robots such as this one will help humans in natural and man-made disasters. The primary function of this robot is to someday perform rescue missions that may be too dangerous for humans.
Clearly, we as a homo sapiens are on the cusp of The Robo-Sapien Age, a brave new world has emerged.
If you were to design a robot, what would it look like? Would it resemble a human being, or have three arms and one eye? Would it be a close relative of man or would you build a robot of a completely different species?
In today's New York Times, Friday, July 12, 2013
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Another Perspective on Robots by Rodney Brooks
Design a robot of your own and its wardrobe.
Will it wear designer clothes or perhaps its own brand-Robot line you created?
Be well kids,
The Teach
