What is A Robot WHAT IS A ROBOT The term robot comes from the Czechoslovakian wordfor "forced labor," invented by Karel Capek. Karel Capek used robots in his plays and had them look and behave like people. Today, the word "robot" is harder to define because of new designs and technology. The third e...

Essentials Of RoboticsHave you ever wondered how your car, your computer, or even a can of beans is made? Well, it is all done by a computer-controlled machine that is programmed to move, manipulate objects, and accomplish work while interacting with its environment (Robot). This complicated machine...

Abstract The ever-increasing requirement for intricate, meticulous, and minimally invasive surgery is driving the hunt for ways to use computers for linking preoperative plans and human tools. Computer-Integrated Surgery (CIS) systems transform preoperative images and other information into model...

Cinematography began in the early 1800s with a simple Phenakistoscope and has evolved into its present day state of computerized generation (DeAngelis, 11). Since the 1500s, people have been trying to transform light into fixed images (8). In the early 1800s, there was a problem that innovators h...

Isaac Asimov was born on January 2, 1920 in Petrouchi, Russia. His parents were Judah and Anna Asimov. Isaac also has a sister Veronica and a brother Stanley. In 1923 his family immigrated to the United States. He and his family grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In Brooklyn his family ran a small can...

Artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence: A Glimpse into the Future A young teenage girl enters the psychologist's, Eliza's, office apprehensively and sits down upon a chair. The girl begins by saying, "Men are all alike." "In what way?' replies Eliza. "Well they are always trying to ru...

English Speech: Artificial intelligence It is the year 2786. The world as we knew it ceases to exist and now lies in chaos and turmoil. It is a world consisting of baron wastelands stripped of all vegetation and life forms. Humanity lies at the brink of extinction. With only a few sti...

Robot Cars on Mars: Instruments and Future AdvancementsFor many years scientists that studied the planet mars have tried to make a remote controlled vehicle that could withstand the arrival, landing, and that could gather useful information that could bring us to understand the ways of Mars.Whatever...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the book "Eager" by Helen Fox. . Specifically it will discuss aspects of the production, authorship, distribution, and significance of the book. "Eager" by Helen Fox is a children's book set in the future. Eager is a new robot acquired by the...

What is the fundamental difference between robots and humans? A robot follows a program; a set of rules programmed in its core memory. This memory completely dominates the robot, affecting its every action. Like robots, humans adhere to certain rules, programmed in a small desolate place in their br...

Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20, 1932. He was the fifth and youngest child of a textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he studied piano and composition with two of Korea's foremost composers. The family moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean War....

Fritz Lang\'s movie \"Metropolis\" was filmed in Germany in 1926. It is a dystopian film portraying a horribly polarized future society where the working class is made to toil endlessly, in stark contrast to the ruling class, i.e. the upper class, who live the life of luxury, high up in towers, look...

Communication Among Honeybees In every bee hive there are three types of bees, a queen, drones, and many workers. The lone queen honeybee is a fertile female, while the drone honeybees are males that are exclusively used for reproduction. It is the many worker honeybees, infertile females...

The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, is the story of a man who at his crossroads, and what direction he decides to take. The story is about a plant manager named Alex Rogo. We find Alex six months into his first plant managers position at UniCo, in the UniWare Division. The plant is located in Bea...

Nanotechnology The above term coined by Dr Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation (1986) was intended to be a new science which would astound the world, having the same effect as the industrial revolution and nuclear power had on us. The word nanotechnology may be a new word to you n...

The Origin of Anime Essay Introduction It's truly amazing how many people into Anime today seem to think that it all started about a year before they got involved in the hobby. Many will, however, tell almost identical stories about dim childhood memories of (depending...

FOREWARDWhen asssigned to write a formal report I English 305T-Technical Writing during the Fall Semester 1999 I decided to research and write about light curtains. The reason is to explain why to use light curtains instead of the older forms of guarding. This report recommends that light curtains...

"...However consistent the world may be...with the idea of such a [powerful, wise, and benevolent] Deity, it can never afford us an inference concerning his existence" (760). These are the words of David Hume in reference to the problem of evil. This paper will discuss Hume's stance on the non-ex...

Often today we hear people talking about Neo, Trinity, Oracle, Morpheus, and Agent Smith. The Matrix movie is a science fiction and action movie which interests people if they like space fantasy, space engineering, and martial arts. Parents have to take extra caution for their children since some ...

The False Hope of Cryonics Have you ever thought about living one hundred years or more from now? If current beliefs are proven to be possible it may be a possibility in the future. Alcor, a life extension foundation, claims that Cryonics may make it possible for people who die to be revived in th...

Today, people are living in a technological advanced world, filled with medical breakthroughs, space travel, as well as computer advancements. Throughout the years, people have been rejoicing in our inventions and our evolution. So, how is it that with theses 'advancements' there is such...

The 1999 science fiction movie, \"The Matrix,\" is interesting because it addresses some important philosophical questions. The existence of human being, the reality of this world we live and the questions of the reliability of human mind are examined during the movie. When examined deeply, it is fo...

When I woke up I had my family next to me. My memories were faded but I started recollecting all that had happened up to the accident. Soon after my gaining consciousness the doctors told me that I had not sustained any major injuries during the accident and that I was very lucky. They also told me ...

The philosopher George Santayana once said that \"those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\" The definition of \"condemned\" means \"sentenced to punishment\". Santayana warns mankind that to forget the past sentences us to repeat it over and over again. It means that man is un...

"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" (Stevenson, 1) This is a song that you hear throughout Robert Lois Stevenson's (RLS) novel, Treasure Island. A young boy accidentally falls into the world of pirates and treasure when he becomes the ow...