Simple Machines
This simple machine is a flat surface set at an angle that helps raise an object with less force.
What is an inclined plane?
The product of force and distance moved in the direction of the force.
What is work?
A machine that can be programmed to perform tasks automatically is called this.
What is a robot?
This production process makes large amounts of standardized products, often on assembly lines.
What is mass production?
The author who wrote famous laws of robotics and helped shape thinking about robots.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
Name the simple machine that has sloped sides and is used to split or separate materials.
What is a wedge?
The amount of material being moved by a machine is called this.
What is the load?
When a robot makes decisions and operates independently without human control, it is called this.
What is autonomous?
A production type where products are made in groups or lots, passing through steps together, is called this.
What is batch production?
This early 20th-century Westinghouse robot could walk, talk, and blow up balloons
What is Elektro?
This simple machine converts rotational motion around a central cylinder to move or lift things and is commonly seen in doorknobs.
What is a wheel and axle?
The push or pull that causes an object to change motion or shape is called this
What is force?
Name two outputs (actions or actuators) that robots commonly use to interact with their environment.
What are arms (manipulators) and wheels/feet (mobility)? — other acceptable answers: voice, cameras/eyes, grippers
Name the production process where materials continuously move from one machine to the next with no interruptions.
What is continuous flow production?
Name one major way technology changes the job market, according to the lesson.
What is that simple, low-skill jobs are often replaced by technology while new high-skill jobs are created?
A spiral ramp wrapped around a cylinder acts like an inclined plane and a wedge. Which simple machine is this?
What is a screw?
This term describes how much a machine multiplies the input force.
What is mechanical advantage
The branch of computer science that creates programs to solve problems creatively and adaptively is called this.
What is artificial intelligence?
This is the manufacturing approach for custom or small-quantity orders, sometimes called the craft approach.
What is job shop production?
Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics. State the First Law exactly as written in the lesson.
What is "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm"?
Give the three classes of levers and one real-world example for each.
What are Class 1 — fulcrum in the middle (seesaw); Class 2 — load in middle (wheelbarrow); Class 3 — effort in middle (shovel)?
Write the formula that relates work (W), force (F), and distance (d).
What is W=F×d?
True or False — Using robots in a factory to perform repetitive assembly tasks is an example of automation.
What is True?
Define automation in one sentence related to manufacturing.
What is the use of automatic control systems and devices (like robots and computers) to operate production with minimal human intervention?
Explain, in one or two sentences, the difference between science and technology as defined in the lesson.
Science is the study of the natural world through observation and experiment (to "know"); technology is the use of science, math, and engineering to invent tools or solve problems (the "study of craft")