History of Robotics
Modern Uses
Robots Rights
Humanoids
Robot Movies
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Who invented the first sketch of a robot?
Leonardo da Vinci
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What is the worst application of robots?
Military use
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Creator of the Three Laws of Robotics
Isaac Asimov
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Paro is used on what type of people?
The sick and elderly
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Children's movie - 2008: A compactor robot with a thing for human culture tries to restore life on planet Earth.
Wall-E
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What year did Henry Ford install the first assembly line for the model T?
1913
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What is the most common use of robots?
In the Automobile Industry
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What was the name of the first robot story?
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
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What year was the study on Asimo started?
1986
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2007- Action: Sentient alien robots fight each other on Earth over a cube that turns a bunch of machines into evil robots. Also Megan Fox fixes a car.
Transformers
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What country introduced the first robotic toy?
Japan
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Sojourner was used to explore which planet?
Mars
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How are the Three Laws inadequate?
Racist against robots, concepts are too abstract to define in concrete terms
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What can PaPeRo do that none of the other robots can do?
Control devices wirelessly
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1984 - Action: A guy from the future steals a hobo's pants and tries to save a woman from a robot who is killing people in order from the phonebook because she will someday give birth to the future leader of the human resistance against the robots.
The Terminator
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What movie in the late 1970's was the first movie to depict robots in the image of humans?
Star Wars
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Do Gynoids represent male or female robots?
Female
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How soon did The UK Office of Science and Innovation's Horizon Scanning Centre say that robots could be given some rights?
Within the next 20-50 years
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What does Qrio’s name mean?
“Quest for curiosity”
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1986 - Comedy: A military robot gets struck by lightning and after accidentally crushing a grasshopper, learns what life is. He reprograms all of the other robots to reenact scenes from Three Stooges.
Short Circuit
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What country hosted the first RoboCup tournament?
Japan
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What four pets can a robot represent?
Cat, Dog, Rabbit, and Bird
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Why should we give robots rights?
Because if we don't, they will kill us
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What is HRP’s purpose as a humanoid?
To work alongside humans in a human environment
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1999 - Children's: An alien robot lands on Earth with amnesia. He befriends a little boy and a beatnik and starts getting into Superman comics before he finds out that he was originally sent to destroy the planet.
The Iron Giant