Monday, October 20, 2008

Investigation

Reflection about what we did in the design cycle

Last Thursday we had to build a robot that was very nice, but , we forgot to design it or plan it we just went frominvestigating straight to create with no planning and designing. we didn't know what kind we had to do and the thing we had to do it with was Lego.

What is a Robot?

My defenition:

A robot is an automous(independent) machine that uses power,sensors,actuators,processors and batries and is build to do in danger situations in the environment. A robot doesn't need food or drinks, doesn't sleep and works 24x7x365.A robot is fast and a high quiality, and there are many diffrent types of robot's and have their own performance.

What makes a robot workes?

A robot is made up of the very same components. A typical robot has a movable physical structure, a motor of some sort, a sensor system, a power supply and a computer "brain" that controls all of these elements. Essentially, robots are man-made versions of animal life -- they are machines that replicate human and animal behavior.
In this article, we'll explore the basic concept of robotics and find out how robots do what they do.Joseph Engelberger, a pioneer in industrial robotics, once remarked "I can't define a robot, but I know one when I see one." If you consider all the different machines people call robots, you can see that it's nearly impossible to come up with a comprehensive definition. Everybody has a different idea of what constitutes a robot.
You've probably heard of several of these famous robots:
R2D2 and C-3PO: The intelligent, speaking robots with loads of personality in the "Star Wars" movies
Sony's AIBO: A robotic dog that learns through human interaction
Honda's ASIMO: A robot that can walk on two legs like a person
Industrial robots: Automated machines that work on assembly lines
Data: The almost human android from "Star Trek"
BattleBots: The remote control fighters on Comedy Central
Bomb-defusing robots
NASA's Mars rovers
HAL: The ship's computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Robomower: The lawn-mowing robot from Friendly Robotics
The Robot in the television series "Lost in Space"
MindStorms: LEGO's popular robotics kit