On the occasion of my tenth birthday, my dad gave me a great robot.
This robot looks like a little kid. He was only about two inches tall, he was made of a light hard plastic and light blue. The big head like a square box placed on the body, not see the neck makes him look strangely strange! There are two antennae on each side, with two large ears, such as two halves of orange attached to the sides of the head with two very large round screws. My body as well as the rectangular box upright, there are lines decorated decorations look like he wears an armor. Behind the back there was a small hollow of two small batteries, close to the knob knob black switch. Two hands and two feet are also connected by small square boxes and attached to the body by large screws. Thanks to this, the limbs can turn in easy directions.
I turn on the switch knob, immediately the robot works immediately. From his belly, the shouts emit as his legs begin to move. Legs step by step step by step, his hands waving to the steps. The most funny thing is that the head looks right, then turns to the left as a hunt for the enemy. Going, touching the bottom of the table or the corner of the cabinet, you automatically avoid the other direction. The shouts and footsteps of the uncle led the cockroaches in the corner of the panic fled.I love playing with this robot, I see you as a quiet and intelligent little friend.
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Nhân dịp sinh nhật lần thứ mười của tôi, bố tôi đã cho tôi một con robot tuyệt vời.
Robot này trông giống như một đứa trẻ. Anh ta chỉ cao khoảng hai inch, anh ta được làm bằng nhựa cứng và màu xanh nhạt. Cái đầu to như cái hộp vuông đặt trên thân, không thấy cổ khiến anh trông lạ đến lạ! Có hai râu ở mỗi bên, với hai tai lớn, chẳng hạn như hai nửa quả cam được gắn vào hai bên đầu bằng hai ốc vít tròn rất lớn. Cơ thể tôi cũng như chiếc hộp hình chữ nhật thẳng đứng, có những đường trang trí trang trí trông giống như anh ta mặc áo giáp. Đằng sau lưng có một hốc nhỏ gồm hai cục pin nhỏ, sát nút vặn màu đen. Hai bàn tay và hai bàn chân cũng được kết nối bằng các hộp vuông nhỏ và gắn vào thân bằng ốc vít lớn. Nhờ điều này, các chi có thể xoay theo hướng dễ dàng.
Tôi bật núm chuyển đổi, ngay lập tức robot hoạt động ngay lập tức. Từ bụng anh, tiếng hét phát ra khi chân anh bắt đầu di chuyển. Từng bước chân từng bước, đôi tay anh vẫy vẫy theo từng bước. Điều buồn cười nhất là cái đầu nhìn bên phải, sau đó rẽ sang trái như một cuộc săn lùng kẻ thù. Đi, chạm vào đáy bàn hoặc góc tủ, bạn tự động tránh hướng khác. Tiếng la hét và bước chân của chú dẫn con gián trong góc hoảng loạn bỏ chạy. Tôi thích chơi với con robot này, tôi thấy bạn là một người bạn nhỏ thầm lặng và thông minh.
Will robots change our lives in the future? It's a funny question to ask when they're changing our lives now in so many ways and they have been for years. From the first time you saw a toaster pop up by itself, we've casually accepted that machines can be trusted to do things for us.
They record our shows, cook our food, play our music, and even run our cars. We just don't see it because these "robots" don't have a face we can talk to or a butt we can kick.
Technically robots are automatic motorised tools, but they're generally known as clunky humanoid foils that have bumbled about popular media for almost a century - mechanised characters of humour, or menace without status, rendering their violent removal a minor plot without guilt.
Boom, there goes another one. The hero saves the day.
Sad actually. Mobile robots have gotten a bad rap from a lot of prejudicial movies and video games, and not the least from the unfulfilled promises of the 20th century. What's taking these scientists so long? If robots are coming, then why can't I just buy one to do my work while I watch TV?
Well, if you do watch TV, you'll "know" that's a recipe for disaster (which ain't true, but whatever...), which is why, after a lifetime building robots the old "serious" way, I decided to introduce something new to the mix: funny robots with personality flaws.
Since 2004 we've sold millions worldwide which has certainly changed some peoples lives and attitudes (mainly kids), and not one of which has ever threatened a single 007 agent. All part of my plan to get robots out of negative fiction and into entertaining reality, where yearly I foist my new devices on an unsuspecting populace.
But it's not world domination I'm after. I know four things robots can do right now that will change our lives for the future, and all in a good way. The first is entertainment (done that), the second is grunt work in dangerous places (coming up), third is elderly care, and last but not least is telepresence shopping, tourism, and assistance.
Imagine sitting at your computer and controlling a video game character through a mall or market, except it's not a game, it's a robot shopping for you in Tokyo while you sit comfortably in London. With a live video and audio feed so you could haggle, you drive a legged humanoid robot about your size so you get a good sense of what would fit, and afterwards you go for a walk to see what the countryside has to offer.
In a future where the cost and inconvenience of travel will likely rise, why not rent-a-rob for an hour just to make sure that resort is up to standard? Or to check in on your mum? Or to help out at a disaster site? Or just get outside in anonymity?
Right now all modern technology is designed to bring the world to you; phone, radio, television, internet, but if trends continue, robots will soon bring you to the world, everywhere, and at the speed of thought. A mind and a hand where it's needed while you sit safely at home and run the show.
It's a future goal -- something we know we can do if we can urge the market towards it, but it's one I like, and might even be able to do something about.
If it works, robots won't just change our lives in the future, they'll expand them. Not just for fun, but for necessity. We've taken the first steps into welcoming them into our homes, we just have to wait a bit to proctor them into making us more human.
It'll be good I think.