By Roger Bridgman
Take an in depth examine the interesting international of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the complex intelligence of robots with emotions. younger readers may be surprised to benefit all that robots can do: practice soft surgical operations, fresh urban sewers, paintings as museum journey publications, or perhaps conflict one another in wrestle. learn the way people have created those mechanical minds and our bodies.
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Kismet expresses sadness by lowering its eyelids and brows and drooping its ears. Kismet pulling a sad face 54 SHY MACHINE FRIENDLY GUIDE Since Kismet appeared, other researchers have developed similar robots. Waseda University has produced WE-4 – a more realistic, but perhaps less appealing, machine. WE-4’s face is covered with plastic sheeting that lights up in a blush when the robot is embarrassed. Unlike Kismet, WE-4 has a sense of touch and can also detect the smell of ammonia and cigarettes.
61 Into the future HRP-2’s “clothes” can be changed if required. NO ONE CAN TELL where robotics is leading us. Even experts cannot agree on what the future with robots might be like. Some say we may become dependent on intelligent machines that think for themselves. Others say that robots will never be that sophisticated. This uncertainty centres on a basic question: what is intelligence? If we can find out enough about intelligence to reproduce it with a computer, then we may soon have machines that are cleverer than we are.
The smaller parts are referred to as “female”. SHAPE SHIFTERS What shape will tomorrow’s robots be? They will be whatever shape they need to be, if Daniela Rus of Dartmouth College, USA, gets her way. She is one of several roboticists working on robots that can change their shape for different jobs. Their bodies are made of separate parts that can slide and link in various ways to change shape in seconds. KEVIN WARWICK Professor of Cybernetics, Reading University, UK 63 Did you know? FASCINATING FACTS The world’s fastest robot hands belong to a machine developed in 2002 at Tokyo University in Japan.