Robots Poon Sin Yu (13209922) Kwok Yuen Yee(13211110) Wong kin(13213148) 10/25/2013
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The definition of robot An electro-mechanical machine which can resemble human action and movement ranging from speaking , jumping to service people and playing the music. A robot is a "machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts or a "device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks", or a "mechanism guided by automatic controls". In practical terms, "robot" usually refers to a machine which can be electronically programmed to carry out a variety of physical tasks or actions. 10/25/2013
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Types of robot 10/25/2013
Kinds of appearance 10/25/2013 Materials used : 1)Plastics : expanded PVC , EPVC Acrylic Expanded Polyethylene 2)metals : there are a wide variety of metals available today, Aluminum is available in various grades and alloys therefore robots can be painted on many colour .
Functions of robot 10/25/2013 Japan's robot venture Squse employee operates an electronic hand, powered by air pressure, to pick up a ball A Japan Logic Machine employee demonstrates a bed-shaped care-robot ' Yurina ' which can be transformed between a bed and a wheelchair for elderly and disabled people
10/25/2013 Pingpong -playing robot ' Topio '. The bipedal humanoid robot is designed to play table tennis against a human being The ' Okonomiyaki Robot' demonstrates its ability to cook traditional Japanese food – Okonomiyaki , a savoury pancake. The robot which has 15 joints, can take verbal orders from customers and use standard kitchen utensils Humanoid industrial robot 'Motoman-SDA5D', developed by the Yaskawa Electric Corporation, demonstrates its capabilities with Lego
10/25/2013 A humanoid robot ' Manoi AT01', produced by Japan's toy robot maker Kyosho , performs a hip-hop dance A laparoscopic robotic surgery machine
Robots that work in industries 10/25/2013 Articulated welding robots used in a factory A Pick and Place robot in a factory
10/25/2013 Japanese robot astronaut floats in zero gravity, it can also chatting with people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwefNs-PrDA
the robot football world championship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwefNs-PrDA 10/25/2013 Geminoid F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQQHHroXyQ
how to apply in our daily work? 10/25/2013
10/25/2013 House cleaning robot Robot that work in a restaurant
Survey results and analysis 10/25/2013
10/25/2013 In this survey, we have interviewed 50 people 13males 37females
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees are students, about 88%
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees think that robot is a kind of innovation(40%) and think that they are helpful in our daily life(35%).Some of the interviewees think that robot is just a toy(21%) and just a few interviewees think robot is useless in our daily life. We can see that most of the people have heard about the newly technology of robot and they believe robots can help with our works, such as the robot soccer or the robots that work in the industries. For the interviewees who think robots are useless or just a toy, may think of the robot toy which are made by iron in 1970s.
10/25/2013 Robot toys which made by iron and cannot move automatically .
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees don’t have any experience in meeting robot in daily life. It can be seen that robot is not common in our daily life . Most of the interviewees have found Robot dog ; over 60% interviewees have been found this types of robot . However, none of the interviewees answer the choice “Others” and just a few interviewees found the robot soccer. It shows that it is difficult to find robots in our society, robots are not common used in our daily life. The robots that can be found in our society are mainly for entertainment.
10/25/2013 From the graph, 20 or above 20% of the interviewees think that robots can do housework, chat with us and play sports. About 15% of the interviewees think that they can cook or teach. Just one interviewee think robots can do nothing. From this graph, we can see that because of the advanced technology, most of the people know that robot can do many things. Most of them have a simple concept about what robots can do.
10/25/2013 More than half of the interviewees think the robot is not common used nowadays
10/25/2013 robots have certain limitation in dealing with the task We can know that in Honk Kong, it is not easy to find a robot. In this question, most of the interviewees think that the robots are not common used nowadays is because the cost of the robots are too expensive. Some of them think that the technology of the robots are not mature enough and it is difficult to make flexible robots.
10/25/2013 Around 70% of the interviewees have imagined having a robot in their daily life.
10/25/2013 Nearly 40% of the interviewees want a robot because they think robots are helpful or useful for the them. 20% of the interviewees think that robots are convenience to use. Some of them think robots can help them to save the time or lower the workload. From these reason we can see that most of the people think that the function of the robots are helping us with our works.
10/25/2013 Others: no reasons 3 reasons have been chosen by 20% of the interviewees , they think robots are expensive, troublesome and annoying, not necessary. Because of the high technology, most of the people think that they cannot afford the money to but a robot. Robots can provide many functions, therefore the people think they are annoying. Also, bulky and no humanity are reasons of not wanting a robot.
10/25/2013 others: do homework Over 40% of the interviewees think that they want the robot to help them to finish their housework if them have a robot. 40% of the interviewees want the robot to help them to cook. From the data, we can see that most of the people want the robots to help them decrease their workload at home. Therefore, they can have more spare time at home after working for a whole day.
10/25/2013 From the graph on the left, over 80 % of the interviewees haven’t notice the news about robot. From the graph on the right, over 90% of the interviewees haven’t heard of “ Geminoid ”, the latest robot. We can see that not too many people are care about the news of robots.
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees got the latest robot news through newspaper ; TV and magazine.
10/25/2013 From these two graph, we can see that more than half of the interviewees want to visit the robot restaurant in Thailand and want to know more about robots. Although the survey result above shows that many people are not care too much on robots, we can see that people are interested in robots and want to try being served by robots and interact with them.
10/25/2013 Over 30% of the interviewees think that robots can help a lot in industries, the second is robots can help in agriculture(23%), so that the products of the field can be increased. Third is the medical treatment(22%). Only 9% of the interviewees think that robots can help in economy.
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees think the robot can bring more positive impacts than the negative side to the society.
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees think that robots can increase work efficiency, 25% of them think that robots can help to decrease workload, and 23% of them think the robots can make life more convenience. These are the three main benefits that the interviewees think robots can bring.
10/25/2013 Most of the interviewees(32%) think robots can increase the unemployment rate if robots replace human to work. The second is the robots will produce lots of electronic waste(27%). The third one is robots can make people lazy since people will do less works(23%). Just a few interviewees think the harm that robots can bring is spending a lot of time to invent a new robot.(4%)
Effect of robots in the future 10/25/2013 http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRssfhR1VcU
ADVANTAGE of robots 10/25/2013 From the result of the survey, message from the video and research, we can know the following advantages that the robots bring.
DISADVANTAGE of robots 10/25/2013 From the result of the survey, message from the video and research, we can know the following disadvantages that the robots bring.
10/25/2013 Most of the people agreed that robot will be wisely use in our future . More and more robots will be used in the future, while the technology improved.
Conclusion There are three kinds of robots: modular, Collaborative and modern robots Robots are made by plastic and metal Many people not knowing too much about robots. Robots can bring many benefits: 1. increase the productivity in industries. 2. make life more convenience 3. Time-saving 4. Decrease workload But it can also bring harms: 1. high operation cost 2. make people lazy and dependence 3. increase the unemployment rate 4.Produce lots of electronic waste. Although robots brings disadvantage to us , if we can use them wisely, they can still bring benefits to us and good for our society. 10/25/2013 After doing this project, we can know that…