UCF History
Robotics History
Technologies in Robotics
Robots in pop culture
Engineering History
100
This company sponsored the creation of one of the newest engineering buildings on campus.
What is L3 Harris?
100
This Boston-based company created one of the most advanced robotic humanoids, and has achieved commercial success with their robotic dog Spot.
What is Boston Dynamics
100
This company created the GPU.
What is Nvidia?
100
This humanoid robot was built by Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars series.
Who is C3P0?
100
The oldest branch of engineering.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
200
This is UCF's oldest college.
What is the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS)
200
This AI was the first to beat a world champion at chess.
What is deep blue?
200
This commonly used sensor can create point cloud representations of our surroundings.
What is LiDAR?
200
This distributed AI network is responsible for a large scale human-robot war in the Terminator Series.
What is Skynet?
200
This Serbian engineer contributed to the development of alternating current.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
300
UCF was founded to supply this government agency with talented engineers.
What is NASA
300
This computer scientist created a test to measure machine intelligence as technology progresses.
Who is Alan Turing?
300
These topics in physics are integral in robotic motion planning.
What are Kinematics and Dynamics?
300
The Autobots and Decepticons lived on this planet far from Earth.
What is Cybertron?
300
This woman is regarded as the mother of programming.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
400
This man was the first president of UCF.
Who is Charles Millican.
400
This robot was the first rover to land on Mars.
What is Sojourner?
400
This operating system was created by a Californian software company to be an embedded robotics software platform.
What is ROS?
400
This robot was nearly beaten by Atom, a shadowboxing robot from the movie Real Steel.
What is Zeus?
400
The modern-day transistor was created at this laboratory.
What is Bell Labs?
500
This sociology professor was one of UCF's first African-American faculty members.
Who is John T. Washington?
500
The first digitally operated and programmable robot.
What is the Unimate?
500
These special actuators which can mimic human muscles are integral in the field of soft robotics
What are pneumatic actuators?
500
The three laws of robotics. (May be listed in any particular order)
What is
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
500
This car engine type thats lacks a crankshaft was created to be a more space and weight efficient alternative to traditional internal combustion engines.
What is the Wankel engine?