Transcript Robots for home

Robots for home
Jinhee Yoo
Comp1631 Winter 2011
Assignment #1
A short Robots timeline
• 270 BC - An ancient Greek engineer named Ctesibus
invented organs and water clocks with movable figures.
• 1495 - Leonardo da Vinci designed and possibly built
the first humanoid robot. The robot was designed to sit
up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck
while opening and closing its jaw.
• 1773 - Pierre and Henry Louis Jaquet-Droz invented the
first automaton that could write.
• 1865- John Brainerd creates the Steam Man apparently
used to pull things.
• 1893 - Dr. Achibald Campion builds the Boilerplate
which is a prototype soldier.
• 1938- Westinghouse creates ELEKTRO a human-like
robot that could walk, talk, and smoke.
• 1961- UNIMATE becomes the first industrial robot in
use. It was used at the General Motors factory in New
Jersey.
• 1963 - The Rancho Arm is created and is the first
computer controlled artificial robotic arm, it was
designed as a tool for the handicapped. It was
developed at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey,
California.
• 1996- Honda creates P2, the first major step in creating
their ASIMO. P2 is the first self-regulating, bipedal
humanoid robot.
• 1997- NASA's PathFinder lands on Mars. It is a
robotic rover that sends images and data
about Mars back to Earth, while it roams the
planet.
• 2005- The Korean Institute of Science and
Technology (KIST), creates HUBO, and claims it
is the smartest robot in the world. This robot
is linked to a computer via a high-speed
wireless connection, the computer does all of
the thinking for the robot.
Personal and Domestic Robots
• The purpose of invention and use of domestic
robot is to liberate people from unpleasant or
dangerous tasks such as vacuuming, lawn
mowing or cleaning pool and give them more
liberty and security; moreover, domestic
robots can be use of personal entertainment
such as companion robots.
Robot Vacuums
• The idea behind robot vacuums is to liberate
people from unpleasant daily chores and free
up their time. And majority of people clean
their house is boring and time consuming. This
is where robot vacuums were invented.
• Robot vacuums change the way we clean
• Robot vacuums has ability to navigate safely
around obstacles while cleaning the floor.
AIBO(Artificial Intelligence Robot)
• AIBO was invented by SONY, AIBO was named
after “Friend” in Japanese language.
• AIBO can express six different types of
emotions and has ability to learn from
experience.
• Also people can monitor their house when
they are not home or watch their children.
Humanoid Robot
• A humanoid robot is a robot with overall
appearance, based on that of the human body.
• Humanoid robot is a autonomous robot because
it can adapt to changes in its environment or
itself and continue to reach its goal.
• Humanoid robot has same ability as AIBO but its
more advanced, such as avoiding harmful
situations to people, property and itself.
Domestic Robots in the future
• The history of domestic robot is short, but
there will be a robot its friendly and can
process every house chores in the future.
resources
• http://kin.naver.com/qna/detail.nhn?d1id=11
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• http://www.robotshop.ca/home.html