Robotics

From Ichikoh Industries will BeamAtic Premium is a new headlight. The headlamps are linked to a camera that is mounted on the car. The camera can see oncoming traffic, and makes light of the headlights adjusted so that it is not disturb the oncoming cars. You would therefore be able to run with the main beam remains activated when it is dark outside without the risk of dazzle anyone.

Exactly when the technology becomes available is still a bit uncertain, but probably sometime next month in Japan. It is also said to Ichikoh Industries are currently processing Japanese automakers that have this technology standard equipment in future cars.

The use of robots in the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors and manage other tasks is increasing as more consumers prefer smart machines to manage their daily tasks without having to participate with their machinery. A report published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics at the end of 2003, said that total sales of domestic robot robot lawn mowers has reached 570,000 and vacuum cleaning robots reached 37,000.

All automatic lawn mowers are designed to mow the lawn alone and with basic models you can mow the lawn up to a third of an acre to mow the lawn and then return home to recharge at the base station – all without human intervention. It’s clean, efficient and fully automatic–you can sit back and relax while the robot does all the work. To take care of the environment, all models currently on the market run on batteries lithium-ion battery, and do not use gasoline or oil to work like a regular lawn mower.

AutoLawnMow robotic lawn mowers are specially designed to cope with the rain. Thanks to rain sensors, these robotic lawnmowers  return to its docking station when it rains. Bump sensors protect your lawn mowing robot from collisions, thus increasing its life and efficiency. Robotic mowers are also a boon for people with allergy problems. They cut your lawn while you’re sitting there sipping on a cocktail.

• Wolf Robotics present welding robots with the ability milling Fabtech. Finish grinding of weld robotically. Fort Collins, CO: Robotics can now be used for welding and grinding required if the finish sanding. Previously, the party has been welded and the weld must be prepared for a smooth weld splatter, or removed by hand or by the need to transfer to another part of the cell for further processing.
• Robotics work was interrupted by the spacewalks, wedged in the spring. The first task of maintenance operations for the robot Canadian Space has been waiting to finish the astronauts in emergency repairs to external cooling system of the International Space Station.

Here’s an interesting discussion from Yahoo Answers:

There are 3 rooms. You are in the middle room typing to a human in the first room and a robot in the last room. What would you ask them both to see who is human and who is a robot?

Here are the suggested answers:

1. If both respondents are required to tell the truth, my question would be:

   What are you made of?

2. I could answer this, but it is best answered by looking up, Turing Test. I have included the link.

3. Do you hear voices in your head?

   Humans do. . . so, that would probably make it really easy.

4. Its call the Turing test after Alan Turing the developer

5. Actually, I don’t think you would be able to determine just by one question because the robot can be programmed with so many possible questions to give an answer to. Therefore, I will ask them a bunch of questions and not only questions but make certain uncommon statements that only a human that isn’t automatic could understand and respond correctly to.

6. The correct question is, how would you determine if YOU had a conscious mind? Here’s the test. Can you remember yourself? If you can’t, then you are not conscious. The irony is that once you start thinking about whether or not you are conscious, you temporarily become “conscious”. And THEN you forget about it. And you fall back asleep.

   This sleep we live under is extremely pervasive and can only be overcome after long and difficult work on oneself.

   Once we become conscious, the whole picture changes.

7. I would ask them three impossibly difficult questions. The first one to give an answer to all three correctly is a robot.

I have deleted some botched attempts at joking and left the interesting answers, some of which are pretty interesting. The Turing test is a good solution, but it also becomes interesting when you start to delve into some of the more metaphysical aspects, such as proposed by #6.