where it is not surprising to hear of amphibious cars and devices with holographic capabilities. Modern man has been able to realize the visions of its predecessors. One of the most notable advancements of the 21st century is the development of artificial intelligence. Most‚ if not all‚ appliances and machinery nowadays operate on computers which enable them to perform operations independently using their own intellectual capacity; hence the names ‘smart tv’ and ‘smart phone’. Scientists however
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3 | Course Objectives & Competences to be Acquired | * Understand the elements of an industrial robot‚ mechanisms‚ sensors‚ actuators and end effectors. * Program robotic manipulators * Acquaintance with artificial intelligence applications in robotics * Introduce industrial control circuits and applications of PLCs in modern industrial control | Course Description/Course Contents | * Robotic FundamentalsIntroduction‚ Robot kinematics;
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What is Soft Computing ? (adapted from L.A. Zadeh) Lecture 1 What is soft computing Techniques used in soft computing • Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that‚ unlike hard computing‚ it is tolerant of imprecision‚ uncertainty‚ partial truth‚ and approximation. In effect‚ the role model for soft computing is the human mind. 1 2 What is Hard Computing? • Hard computing‚ i.e.‚ conventional computing‚ requires a precisely stated analytical model and often a lot of
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The labeling of the 20th century as the ‘Age of Anxiety” is created by the common theme of someone using technology to obtain power over the common man. It is the uncertainty of what could happen that drives fear and paranoia as a common bond. In Robbie‚ Mrs. Weston states quite bluntly‚ “I won’t have my daughter entrusted to a machine-and I don’t care how clever it is. It has no soul‚ and no one knows what it may be thinking.” She is uncertain how the metal robot works and this causes her to be
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industry is no different then any other in that it is susceptible to its external environment. Today’s situation recalls trends of 153 years ago‚ when the brutality of the civil war conflict spawned a revolution in the design and mass production of artificial limbs. Recognizing the alarming number of amputations resulting from combat‚ the U.S. government unveiled the "Great Civil War Benefaction‚" a commitment to provide prosthetics to all disabled veterans. With the lure of government support‚ entrepreneurs
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In the last century we have seen modern technology grow from almost nothing into a leading power in our everyday lives. Technology aids us humans in so many different ways‚ and in all imaginable categories‚ that it would be impossible to list them all. One of the main technological advances that are used in almost every machine today‚ in some form or another‚ is a computer. Overtime the processing power of a computer has become immense‚ which started to beg the question can a computer ever think
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GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE by Flannery O ’Connor The short story Good Country People was written by O’Connor. The story introduces us to well-educated a woman who was thirty-two years old. This woman has an artificial leg which was shot off in a hunting accident when she was ten. She went to college and earned a doctorate in philosophy. She has a heart condition; so she cannot work and has to live at home with her mother. The name given to her is Joy but she changed her name to Hulga. She mocks her mother
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Progress or Retrogression? “The only branch of science and math concerned with the ‘Limitations’ of Evolution.” As said by Taylor Kirkland on cybernetics: this is the science of evolution. As this occurs and as time goes on human development can only move forwards and as we see these changes happening right before us‚ one can only wonder if we’re heading in the right direction. As presented in the song “Mr. Roboto” written by Dennis DeYoung‚ “Mann and Machine” from Contemporary Canadian Biographies
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fields of study for many‚ many years. Mathematician Alan Turing was a pioneer in unraveling this question. His philosophies found in his published paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” changed the ways in which we perceive and comprehend artificial intelligence. Turing’s most famous advance on the age-old question was the self-titled Turing test. The test is quite simple; an isolated human investigator is given the task of distinguishing between a machine and a human based on the answers to
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What does it mean to be human? Simply it means to make decisions not always based on logic or reason‚ or the decision is made based on emotion. This is an interesting question that is brought up in Ridley Scott’s movie Alien (1979). The crew of the Nostromo for the most part appears to be human‚ but through their actions it makes one wonder if they are actually humans or if they are simply robots. They have gone to such a point that human life has seemingly been devalued in order to complete the
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