Commercial Robots
Name the first and most famous robot vacuum cleaner.
Roomba
If you have a system of multiple interlocking gears that transmits power, you have created a "gear _____". Fill in the blank.
This is the name of the plastic snap-together robotics system we have been using in this class.
Vex IQ
This is the name of the company that brought the first powerful AI chatbot to market in 2022 and early 2023.
OpenAI
Which robot did Anakin Skywalker build as a child?
C-3PO
This is the name of Amazon's artificially intelligent home assistant.
Alexa
If you build a robot but it can't pick up a pin because it doesn't have enough strength, the motor is lacking this t-word that means rotational force.
Torque
Lego's classic robotics kit is called by this M-word.
This is the name of Anthropic's chatbot.
Claude
Name the title robot from a Pixar movie about an abandoned Earth covered in junk. (Bonus points: also name the robot he meets and becomes friends with!)
WALL-E
and EVE
From 1998 – 2006, Sony manufactured a robot called Aibo. Aibo was a robotic version of what animal?
A dog
This device measures how quickly a robot accelerates.
What's the level above VEX IQ called?
Vex v5
Claude and Gemini are examples of LLMs. What does LLM stand for?
Large Language Model
Arnold Schwarzenegger played this deadly robot in a famous movie series that started in the 80s.
The Terminator
In 1996, the Japanese company Bandai released a famous digital pet that you could carry around in your pocket and take care of. What was its name?
Tamagotchi
If you want a high-force high-power motor for your robot you want a "gear motor."
But if you want a motor with a lot of precision, you want this type of motor that starts with an "S".
What competition are the 8th graders working on in robotics?
FIRST Tech Challenge
Extra credit: in a similar vein, what does "ASI" stand for?
Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial Superintelligence
What is the name of the Will Smith movie about a society with tons of humanoid robots, that go rogue? It is based on an Isaac Asimov book.
I, Robot
What is the name of the robot that Tesla is developing?
Optimus
(Half credit for "Tesla Bot.")
Waymo autonomous cars use sensors that are similar to radar except they use lasers instead of sound. What is the term for those sensors?
LIDAR
A famous competition was started in 2004 where teams have to program a car to drive autonomously across a desert. Many colleges competed in this competition. The competition was called this name, after the government agency that organized it.
DARPA Grand Challenge
(Any mention of DARPA is enough for full credit.)
What does "GPT" stand for in ChatGPT?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer
(sorry that one's impossible!)
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a superintelligent computer becomes evil and murderous during a space mission. What is that computer's name?
HAL 9000