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fandomhigh2012-07-20 03:42 pm
not_a_whiner) wrote in fandomhigh2012-07-20 03:42 pm
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Introduction to Robotics, Friday
"I've been showing you a lot of different synthetics over the past two weeks," Kaidan began, "But the truth is, they're not all so flashy. Even in this time period, synthetics-- robots-- are put to good use in all kinds of places, and they don't necessarily have to look like anything you know. The food industry, for example, uses robots to help with packaging, and they're going to move on to do much more in that department over the next few decades. Cars are put together by robots specialized into one task, running on a simple script. Robots defuse bombs and mix our drinks and do all kinds of things that might be dangerous or difficult for a human being."
No pressure, Victor.
"Some of you already know how they work," he continued. "For the rest of you, maybe you've been poking at your schematics unsure what to do or what things are, so I'll give a brief explanation. Basically, every synthetic is made up of three components."
He tapped a few buttons on his omni-tool and displayed a very simple food-processing 'bot. "The power source. Usually a battery of some kind. That gets it going. Then--" He pointed on the picture, "The actuator, which turns the energy from the power source into motion." Another tap of his omni-tool, and the image started moving. "And the sensors, which pick up cues from the outside world and translate them, so the robot can run its script.
"You go a little beyond that, you've got the end effectors - the hands of the robot - and the manipulator, the arm. Some synthetics will have wheels or mass effect fields to get them moving. You can give a robot speech recognition programs, or build them to interface with humans through simulated facial expressions and interaction scripts..." He trailed off.
"How these components are used, which ones you put together, that's going to depend on the purpose you're looking for. A food processing machine isn't going to need wheels or a human face to do its job, and it can get by on a simple script. You want a mech to patrol an area, though, you're going to have to work in some rudimentary human interaction skills, find a way of locomotion that fits the environment, and come up with one hell of a script."
He closed off his omni-tool. "I want you guys to partner up and do two things," he said. "First, think about some form of industry you know of that could benefit from robotic assistance. What would a mech or a machine like that have to look like? What extras would it need? How complicated would it be? And second of all... think of what you want your drone to do. What are you going to need with that? Maybe your partner has some ideas."
No pressure, Victor.
"Some of you already know how they work," he continued. "For the rest of you, maybe you've been poking at your schematics unsure what to do or what things are, so I'll give a brief explanation. Basically, every synthetic is made up of three components."
He tapped a few buttons on his omni-tool and displayed a very simple food-processing 'bot. "The power source. Usually a battery of some kind. That gets it going. Then--" He pointed on the picture, "The actuator, which turns the energy from the power source into motion." Another tap of his omni-tool, and the image started moving. "And the sensors, which pick up cues from the outside world and translate them, so the robot can run its script.
"You go a little beyond that, you've got the end effectors - the hands of the robot - and the manipulator, the arm. Some synthetics will have wheels or mass effect fields to get them moving. You can give a robot speech recognition programs, or build them to interface with humans through simulated facial expressions and interaction scripts..." He trailed off.
"How these components are used, which ones you put together, that's going to depend on the purpose you're looking for. A food processing machine isn't going to need wheels or a human face to do its job, and it can get by on a simple script. You want a mech to patrol an area, though, you're going to have to work in some rudimentary human interaction skills, find a way of locomotion that fits the environment, and come up with one hell of a script."
He closed off his omni-tool. "I want you guys to partner up and do two things," he said. "First, think about some form of industry you know of that could benefit from robotic assistance. What would a mech or a machine like that have to look like? What extras would it need? How complicated would it be? And second of all... think of what you want your drone to do. What are you going to need with that? Maybe your partner has some ideas."
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