...Advancement in Robot Engineering Over the several years, robot engineering has become a part of everyone’s daily life especially towards the development of robots for the elderly. Frank Tobe, a robotics analyst and publisher of The Robot Reports, explains and describes about the different type of technologies that are beginning to come to the market to help the elderly to live in their homes for as long as possible. Joseph Engelberger, who is a robotics pioneer, created and helped with the invention of the first industrial robot. The need for eldercare technology continues to increase throughout the years. A study from Georgia Tech showed and proved the seniors preferred robotic help for household chores but not for personal needs such as getting help to get dressed up, bathing, and many more. The consequences for having robot-care can vary depending on what type of care the robot is providing to the elders. One consequence would be that robots would be replacing jobs that humans once had. Robots that are used for medical purposes could dramatically change the way we treat the ailments. Many researches are experimenting with robots to perform surgical performances such as a heart surgery. Over the years, robotic engineers are trying to develop nano-robots that could be injected into cancer patients in order to selectively kill cancer cells. For elderly people with impairments such as a spinal cord injury or some sort of paralysis caused by a stroke, robots are able to assist...
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...and food preparers and many of the United States’ 3.3 million cashiers. Automation in the fast food industry has already started. In Europe, McDonald’s “hired” 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties, taking orders and handling payments. The use of touch screens at drive-thrus will also soon be available. While the full automation of fast-food cashiers isn’t here just yet, researchers and those in the business say it’s only a matter of time before ordering and payment become primarily self-service. In this essay I would like to discuss another type of automation, a technology which I believe will further revolutionize and potentially result in a significant number of jobs lost in the fast food industry, the burger making robot or burger bot. The burger bot doesn’t just flip the beef patties; it actually makes the burgers from start to finish. It may sound ludicrous at first, but start to think about the economic and social implications that it will have towards the fast food industry and sooner you realize that the seriousness of its impact. A tech company in San Francisco called Momentum Machines, has been developing this technology of burger making since 2012. According to the company, the burger bot is designed to do the work of three full-time kitchen staff, making...
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...Robotics: Utopia or Dystopia Robotics: Utopia or Dystopia? Table of Contents: Serial No. | Particular | Page No. | 01. | Introduction | 04 | 02. | Definition of a Robot | 04 | 03. | History of Robotics | 05 - 10 | 04. | The implications of robotics for jobs in manufacturing | 10-12 | 05. | The implications of robotics for jobs in the service sector: | 12 -13 | 06. | Robotics and future jobs, utopia or Dystopia | 13-15 | 07. | Conclusion: | 16 | 08. | Recommendation | 16 | 09. | References | 17 | Robotics: Utopia or Dystopia? Introduction: We are living in such an era, when the needs and demands of human beings are increasing day by day. To satisfy those needs, innovation and development in every field which guide the future of humanity is also proceeding in a rapid way. To meet the various needs and desires of the increasing population, inventors were seeking for a genuine solution which could provide the overwhelming challenges and will be able to meet the demands of the civilizations and that leads to the idea of mechanization. Inventors, who put forward the idea of mechanization, stated that by mechanization there would be great convenience for people to respond to their demands and can help them to complete their task in a short period of time. By following these principles, machines have started to meet the needs of increasing population...
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...Artificial Intelligence Shadena Hobbs INF 103: Computer Literacy Instructor: Lawrence Master January 28, 2013 Is the Intelligence of machines and robots and the branch of computer science that aims to create if Al textbook defines the field as the study and design of intelligent agents. Where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives it’s environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Al research is highly technical and specialized, deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other. Some of the division is due to social and cultural facts subfields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual searchers. Al researchers is also divided by several technical issues. There are subfields which are focused on the solution of specific problems, on one of several possible traits as reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception, and the ability to move and manipulate objects. General intelligence and symbolic and traditional Al. There are enormous number of tools in Al, including versions of search and mathematical optimization...
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...The aim of the Organizational behavior is studying the human behavior in an individual and group processes and actions. It is significant for us to explore and understand the implication of human beings and the interactions of organization as well as aware the best way on nature and the role of management in designing and controlling the organizations. Organizational theory is distributed to two main approaches, Technical-rational approach and Social-human approach. Technical-rational approaches simply are considering the organization as machines and treating human as mere cogs within them which include Bureaucracy, The Classical School and Scientific management. About the Social-human approaches are seeing the organization as communities of people and treat human as emotional and social beings, which structures are more flexible and It can be called as Human rations school. Afterward, I would like to discuss them respectively and particularity. First of all, about the Bureaucracy demonstrates the people to have their own responsibilities and well-defined tasks. It indicates there are the hierarchical reporting structures in organization which means the managers have official authorities to exact obedience such as because of their position, as well as the personal authority based on individual personality, intelligence, and experience obedience and respect within an organization are absolutely essential. Good discipline requires managers to apply sanctions whenever violations...
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...Introduction The movie of Stanley Kubrick: A Space Odyssey base on Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. The core theme of the movie was fiction and the story of Clarke reflects the same. “The Sentinel” provided the original basis for Kubrick’s film version and the story itself published after the film’s release. “A Space Odyssey” book reviews discuss the plot, characters and themes found in the story. One can learn more about the different literary elements that should be examined in the story. According to the plot of the movie the space navigators David Bowman and Frank Poole, along with three frozen hibernauts and a talkative computer named Hal, are aboard the spaceship Discovery on a mission to Saturn. They told that the purpose of the mission is to enter and explore the atmosphere of the planet. Trouble arises, however, when Hal announces that the computer's Fault Prediction Center indicates failure of one of the units within seventy-two hours (Angelo, 2003). Although the faulty part, that is not the end of the astronauts' problems. Hal still insists there is trouble ahead. Faced with an increasingly frustrating and odd-behaving Hal, Bowman threatens to turn the computer off. Before long, navigator Poole, working outside the ship, disconnected from his safety lines and drifts off into space. The sleeping hibernauts also disconnected from the pods that maintain their bodies and die. Bowman left alone with Hal (Angelo, 2003). Realizing that the computer killed the others...
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...anyways back to the point Mr. Deville only 10% of our brains are used and is said that if we were able to tap the other 90% that we could read “pie” to the twenty thousandth decimal place, or even have telekinetic powers. There is even a website called lumosity.com that students from Harvard university had came up with, which includes brain training activities online that work and that help your mind skills. These skills include attention, memory, flexibility, problem solving and others you would be using every day. Hal has a mind but it’s not a responsive mind. It is not one that can answer a question or something with real thought or emotion. His mind is a programmable computer, and all his answers would be logical like when he kills frank. It’s the logical answer, so the mission can be...
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...The Building Process of Disneyland Disneyland is the greatest place on the earth. It is an imaginary place where you can really feel that you are enchanted. There is no place in the world that has this special magic which Disney has. It is the dream of every child, teenager, adult, and even mothers and fathers. I went there when I was fifteen years old and actually no one can imagine how happy I was; except who went there. In addition, I could not forget how my dad and mum were extremely happy with us; really it is a place where parents and children spend the most joyful time together. I choose to discuss this topic because many of us go there and spend unforgettable time, but we cannot imagine or think how the inventor of Disneyland (Walt Disney) achieved his dream. Disneyland process involves several steps in order to be done. On July 18, 1955 Walt Disney had invented his first theme park Disneyland after four years of working hard and extensively. The theme park was located in, California, U.S.A. Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland in the 1930s and 1940s when he and his daughters visited the Griffith Park in Los Angeles and he came up with the idea of having a park where parents can spend enjoyable time with their children. But this dream took a long time to be a reality. Walt Disney was receiving many letters from the fans that they want to visit Disney studio so that he started thinking of building an adjacent tourist attraction in order to amuse fans. (Disneyland)...
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...Introduction Frederick Winslow Taylor was born in 1856 with a silver spoon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was considered the founder of scientific management and was one of the pioneer batches of management consultants and he devoted his time to the development of his ideas. Scientific management is defined as the support of the selection of the right people for the right jobs, adequately training them, and placing them in the right spot and paying them well in a scientific method. Cause of Production Inefficiency Taylor attributed lack of productivity to soldiering. It is the scenario which workers perform their job below the maximum possible output on purpose or in deliberately. It is paramount to note that Taylor did not fully blame the workers. He concluded that soldiering was a result of misunderstandings by workers and management’s inability to understand and implement precise and efficient work processes (S.Pugh & J.Hickson 1996). According to Taylor also from Marshall (2007) p57, another reason for the inefficiency in businesses is the method that solitary tasks are done. He proposed a time study to identify the most pristine conditions, machines, tools and etc. Hence, the next part talks about the causes that Taylor attributed to soldiering. Firstly, workers had this deceptive idea that any increase in their productive output, fewer of them would be needed and jobs would eliminate which would ultimately inevitably result in unemployment. Many workers believed...
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...workforce. The classical scientific school owes its roots to several major contributors, including Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. Frederick Taylor is often called the “father of scientific management.” Taylor believed that organizations should study tasks and develop precise procedures. As an example, in 1898, Taylor calculated how much iron from rail cars Bethlehem Steel plant workers could be unloading if they were using the correct movements, tools, and steps. The result was an amazing 47.5 tons per day instead of the mere 12.5 tons each worker had been averaging. In addition, by redesigning the shovels the workers used, Taylor was able to increase the length of work time and therefore decrease the number of people shoveling from 500 to 140. Lastly, he developed an incentive system that paid workers more money for meeting the new standard. Productivity at Bethlehem Steel shot up overnight. As a result, many theorists followed Taylor's philosophy when developing their own principles of management. Henry Gantt, an associate of Taylor's, developed the Gantt chart, a bar graph that measures planned and completed work along each stage of production. Based on time instead of quantity, volume, or weight, this visual display chart has been a widely used planning and control tool since its development in 1910. Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, a husband-and-wife team, studied job motions. In Frank's early career as an apprentice bricklayer, he was interested...
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...deal with increased labor dissatisfaction, so they began to test solutions. As a result, the classical management theory developed from efforts to find the “one best way” to perform and manage tasks. This school of thought is made up of two branches: classical scientific and classical administrative, described in the following sections. The classical scientific branch arose because of the need to increase productivity and efficiency. The emphasis was on trying to find the best way to get the most work done by examining how the work process was actually accomplished and by scrutinizing the skills of the workforce. The classical scientific school owes its roots to several major contributors, including Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. Frederick Taylor is often called the “father of scientific management.” Taylor believed that organizations should study tasks and develop precise procedures. As an example, in 1898, Taylor calculated how much iron from rail cars Bethlehem Steel plant workers could be unloading if they were using the correct movements, tools, and steps. The result was an amazing 47.5 tons per day instead of the mere 12.5 tons each worker had been averaging. In addition, by redesigning the shovels the workers used, Taylor was able to increase the length of work time and therefore decrease the number of people shoveling from 500 to 140. Lastly, he developed an incentive system that paid workers more money for meeting the new standard....
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...differences than everyone else around you. Another reason is that we don’t realize what they have been through, or what their background is like. This theme is something I can relate to because when Mrs. Murch was NOT pregnant at the time, I thought she was. Although I said nothing, we later on identified that she’s having her fourth child! I’m delighted with myself that I did not make any rude or hurtful comments to her face, nor behind her back without knowing the real situation. Nonetheless, it is disrespectful to judge anyone without knowing what they have been through or their personality. I am introducing this character as the mentor because he helps max until the end. His name is Kevin (freak). Kevin likes to play pretend, “I’m a robot man…”, he is also very intelligent. Kevin has developed a remarkable amount of knowledge such as, “When do we eat? My fuel cells are depleted.” His personally is boundless, very ambitious,...
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...rapidly evolving everyday, where the second you buy a brand new computer it is already obsolete within that same year with something better already being produced. And now gadgets such as google glass which allow people to take pictures and videos just by blinking without the consent of those around the user, how exactly must we as a people adapt and change our views on ethics as technology continues to evolve. One of the biggest moral issues today is the creation of unmanned drones and their use during violent conflicts. The main issue many people have against them is their ability to take a human life and not experience the horror or conflict of making such a decision. Where does that leave us as humans where we will eventually allow robots to make the decisions of whether or not to kill a certain person based on data it has collected. On the other side of this argument there is something called the Millian harm principle where many people believe that (“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”) A very strong statement but one that does make sense in my own opinion. Seeing how technology today is already affecting us and making us as humans look at ethics in a different way and perhaps creating new policies in order to adapt to this ever changing world, what we do now may have a bigger effect on people in the future. In an essay by Patrick Lin he states that “The...
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...Micro Mouse Competition Team 1: I-Robotics Motto: Robotic creations for a better world http://i-robotics.webnode.com Team Members: Cory Balmelli, Nathan Crawford, Dave Engebretson, David Reuter, Frank Thomas Table of Contents Problem of the overheating servo motors – Cory Balmelli 3 Part 1; Review Course of Action; K.T. Decision Analysis 3 Part 2; Implementation 3 Part 3; Checklist Questions 4 Part 4; “P” 4 Part 5; Ethical Considerations 4 iRobot Sensor Failure - Nathan Crawford 6 Part 1; Course of Action; Decision Analysis 6 Part 2; Implementation 6 Part 3; Checklist Questions 6 Part 4; Patience 7 Part 5; Ethical Considerations 7 Technique 3: Statement Restatement - David W Reuter 8 Part 1; Review Course of Action; K.T. Decision Analysis 8 Part 2; Implementation – Using the Follow-Up Action 8 Part 3; Checklist Question 8 Part 4; Pride 9 Part 5; Ethical Considerations 9 Works Cited 10 Index 11 Problem of the overheating servo motors – Cory Balmelli Part 1; Review Course of Action; K.T. Decision Analysis In my previous report I used Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis to determine a course of action to solve our team’s problem of overheating servo motors. K.T. Decision Analysis helped to narrow down possible courses of action and determine which course would fit our criteria. I came up with three possible courses of action: reprogram the controller, buy new motors, or install a resistor. K.T. Decision Analysis quickly weeded...
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