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Though exhausted, he went to bed very late.
However far it is, I intend to drive there tonight.
He should follow my advice. If anything its in his interests.
If anything, he continued and companies remained more determined than ever to fight.
However long was the period of its coming to being and development, the results were quite satisfying, even excellent.
Yes, we had a talk. We really did.
Very little, if anything, could be advanced in the defense of his policy.
In general she has changed little, if at all, in the two years of her absence.
A little table with a dinner was laid out and wine and plate.
"Married?" "Widower, sir
Objections to this plan, if any, should be reported to the committee at once.
The British people have to submit to new taxation, however high.
didn't tell where he had been, but I know, though.
If considered from this point of view, the problem takes on a new aspect.
But the decision, if logical, requires a measure of courage.
Whatever the conversation, she knows exactly what you're talking about
It is possible in the transformer of this type to have part ofthe winding serve as both primary and secondary.
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The future of robots
I. Key words: to process information, high-tech surveillance tool, to outfit, vehicles, to crack a code, consciousness, to prevail, artificial intelligence, to be aware of something.
The future of robots: computer scientists program robots to play soccer, communicate with bees
Engineers built humanoid robots that can recognize objects by color by processing information from a camera mounted on the robots head. The robots are programmed to play soccer, with the intention of creating a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots able to compete against a championship human team by 2050. They have also designed tiny robots to mimic the communicative waggle dance of bees. A world of robots may seem like something out of a movie, but it could be closer to reality than you think. Engineers have created robotic soccer players, bees and even a spider that will send chills up your spine just like the real thing. Theyre big... theyre strong... theyre fast! Your favorite big screen robots may become a reality. Some types of them could one day become high-tech surveillance tools that secretly fly and record data... and a robot you probably wont want to see walking around anytime soon?
Powered by a small battery on her back, humanoid robot Lola is a soccer champion. The idea of the robot is that it can walk, it can see things because it has a video camera on top, Raul Rojas, Ph.D., professor of artificial intelligence at Freie University in Berlin, Germany, told Ivanhoe. Using the camera mounted on her head, Lola recognizes objects by color. The information from the camera is then processed in this microchip, which activates different motors. And using this camera it can locate objects on the floor for example a red ball, go after the ball and try to score a goal, Dr. Rojas said.
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A robot with a few tricks up her sleeve. German engineers have also created a bee robot. Covered with wax so its not stung by others, it mimics the waggle dance a figure eight pattern for communicating the location of food and water. Later what we want to prove is that the robot can send the bees in any decided direction using the waggle dance, Dr. Rojas said.
Robots are made of roughly the same components as human beings: a body structure with moveable joints; a muscle system outfitted with motors and actuators to move that body structure; a sensory system to collect information from the surrounding environment; a power source to activate the body; and a computer brain system to process sensory information and tell the muscles what to do. Robots are man-made machines intended to replicate human and animal behavior. Roboticists can combine these basic elements with other technological innovations to create some very complex robotic systems. There are plenty of robots doing manual work on factory assembly lines, but while those machines can manipulate objects, they do the same thing, along the same path, every time. Other robots are designed to play soccer, or to drive vehicles without human input.
Robots and computer networks are always evolving intelligent consciousness in popular science fiction. But while modern scientists have made great strides in building computers that can mimic logical thought, they still havent cracked the code of human emotion and consciousness. There are two prevailing schools of thought on artificial intelligence. Proponents of strong AI consider that all human thought can be broken down into a set of mathematical operations. They expect that they will one day be able to replicate the human mind and create a robot capable of both thinking and feeling, with a sense of self the stuff of classic science fiction. Think of the robot Number Five from the 80s movie Short Circuit, who suddenly realized, frightened, that he could be disassembled by the scientists who made him. Weak AI proponents expect that human thought and emotion can only be simulated by computers. A computer might seem intelligent, but it is not aware of what it is doing, with no sense of self or consciousness.
