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Terrill Simms
Eng 202
Draft
10/25/07
In a more increasingly issue that is beginning to become a major deal in peoples lives across the universe with the increase in highly trained robots that are simulated as real human beings, scientist say this is an issue “where reality is finally catching up to the science-fiction hype”. These mechanisms are being created and to be used in countries as far as Korea. They are being used by all age groups from children to the elderly part of this society.
Beyond all of that many consumers rather have these devices do useful tasks, they want them to natural intuitive beings which they will interact, communicate, work with you as a partner, able to be taught new skills and gain knowledge. With recent advances in low-cost electronics, robots can now interact with people in an entertaining, engaging, or anthropomorphic way. In fact, interacting with people has become an important aspect of a robot’s functionality. For instance, a new generation of robotic toys has emerged many of them inexpensive, but some are more expensive and rather sophisticated.
Other stress that your personal robots should not just be useful to them, but humans should enjoy having them around. On another end of the robot life everyone has been familiar with the usage of them in many different entertainment ways. The professional terms they are used are known as animatronics which is the description for theme park robots and sophisticated robotic puppets that are for special effects in films. There trying to take inexpensive video games as a trial to create more and more humanlike characters. Engineers now are able to create robot cars to drive themselves across deserts which mean one day will probably not need to drive just be a passengers like some night riders stuff. It is documented that a car had drove seven miles with out a human before gone off road and getting stuck. That was only eighteen months earlier before a record setting $2 million prize was captured. That was when a robot car was designed by a team of engineers from Stanford University that made it about 132 miles across a desert plain with no human present. The Pentagon has already set an approximate time when the robotic car will be back on the road, scheduling for this act sometime next year the only catch is this time it’ll be a traffic like setting. The New York Times had an article explaining electronic eyes that perform lifeguard duties in swimming pools. To add to that a French company known as Poseidon Technologies as designed and hit the market with underwater vision alerts that swim around in swimming pools to function as lifeguard assistants, they have already saved many lives in Europe by issuing alerts when someone is drowning. They claim these procedures are making a rapid progress in human-life they call artificial intelligence. This goes to show again it’s just a matter of time until will be living in a world of nothing but machines. Everything that where capable of doing will be took over by the acts of metal people known as robots. Reality is finally catching up to the science-fiction hype. One of the next advances can also be seen in the emergence of bold new projects intended to create more ambitious machines that can improve safety and security, and once again entertain and inform, or just handle everyday tasks. A huge communication company in Mountain View, California known as TellMe Networks has developed voice recognition instrument that that will look up a number and is able to transfer calls. When this service was first introduced it could only correctly answer about 37 percent of all its calls without human help that was back in around 2001. Bringing us to the present time 2007 that percentage has doubled to 74 percent of answering all calls. A group of computer science students at Stanford University are learning and constructing how to build a robot that will design a bookcase using a hammer and screwdriver on its own. This human-like machine will also know how to load a dishwasher and take out the trash, many tasks that we do on a regular. Some people probably don’t know how to use tools like hammers and screwdrivers and our world is so far technology that the can design a computer to do this. It’s been documented that another building a robot to be a butler in his home to hold conservations and get more food for his pet. Most scientists will admit that these projects are for years to come, but there definitely striving with progress. Researchers believe that scientists in the past decades were on the right path but what sets them apart is a wealth of new biological data on how the human brain functions. Stanford computer scientists and head engineer in a project called Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, or Stair Andrew Ng said his dream is to put a robot in every home.

My research process all started by first selecting a topic to write about. I chose to use a topic that I wrote my mini essay on, that was titled “How Are Robots Changing the Lives of us, Human Beings”? I used that basic topic and expanded on to it revising the title to fit a more in depth topic. When I started searching this topic I was finding a lot of information but was having trouble getting different types of sources. I began writing using the sources I had but ran into a small problem because I needed more sources. I searched for more but when I began breaking them down I realized the newer sources were moving off my topic, it had the same idea but was a little different. This is when I ran into my most difficult problem, trying to rewrite my title and trying to feel in my partially written paper. I had a new title and it was all falling into place. I never really thought I could develop and finish a paper of this extent. I wasn’t as hard I imagined it would be and I feel I can a decent paper and have became an alright writer in general. With the time you have to put into doing the research it seems that if you don’t take advantage of it you would have a troubled time, I feel I had great success in developing this paper and my paper is well connected to my sources. My overall grammar organizations, my citations, summarizing, quotes, and works cited page came along way and on a scale from 1-10 would sit between a 7 and an 8.

“Using digital dimensions in a class like this you would probably think would be stupid,” thinking there’s a lot of unnecessary work involved but personally after finishing up in this class I thought otherwise. I actually enjoyed working with these tools, the wiki was my favorite because you to post whatever you want day in and day out about a topic. It doesn’t matter whether or not your wrong because its your opinion, then to being able to go back and look at someone else’s blog and reflecting to there opinion and create a little beef towards one another, it has you thinking. Having the blog’s to go back and reflect on and make changes helps because it easy to access and is very helpful for example when writing a paper. It’s good to help you break down your paper and develop in sections. This is a very helpful group of tools that wouldn’t mind using in another class or recommend using for someone else. It’s also just good to be familiar with knowing how to use them in case for some reason you may have to use one.

When I began writing my paper I had simple broad topic that I kind of just got information for and just rambled on about. It wasn’t until I got about half way through my paper when I was realizing my topic had no real particular focus. I was running out of sources and information and had a paper that wasn’t getting the job done. So I began to start editing, I started with the most basic thing, and that was my title. I tried fitting my title to what I had already written so that I could still use my already typed paper. I was trying to make my title fit in a more informative heading. Instead of just saying one simple thing I came up with a new one so it sound like it could only fit certain information and not a big area of info. After I chose a new heading for my paper I had to do a good bit more of research to develop more information in my paper. I had come across about ten more sources and after breaking what I had found, I had another hard task at hand that was to try and fit the new research into a half written paper. Some knew things went right along with what I had already come up with but then some was on a whole new issue. The research that I had gotten that wasn’t related to my paper already was making me run into another problem. This issue was my title again, it seemed to me that something wasn’t fitting again and it was the heading. So I found myself erasing the title I though I just revised and coming up with another that would not be broad and sound as if it was an informative title, then it had to fit my already developed paper, then I was trying to make it go write along with the new pieces of the paper. After that I seemed to think now I was on the right path. I had revised my title three times, searched and founds ten knew sources to rip through and put in facts that I had not yet had in my paper.

The first important assignment that led me to begin the search in my research process was “Intro (quote)”.

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Terrill Simms
English 202
Mini Essay

How are robots changing the lives of us, human beings? Technology has a major impact on many and several things upon this earth. Technology is so ridiculous advance making us humans very smart that we are building robots to replace tasks of us. This is what brings me to my question of how robots are changing the lives of humans. The main thing I am starting to have a concern with is that we are getting so lazy that is why we continue to build these machines t do the things they do. One thing the article discusses is that there are robotic pets and other toys that can help replace the actual human by providing comfort to the elderly and to small children. I can agree totally with that because parents get busy and young kids always want imaginary friends or get closed to a specific toy, that a way these toys are simulating a real life image there getting a full affect. The argument that I am taking up is that to me the older generations are just getting really lazy by providing themselves with items like the sweepers to vacuum there houses and so forth. Freaking Wal-Mart is moving towards self checkouts where you can walk up scan all your items and cash out with out the help of an actual employee. I used one of these advancements today. I think its bullshit for one because its stuff like that is going to start putting us out f work if they go strictly to these about thirty people or so at each store would probably have know job. I know it’s the twenty first century and what not it’s just we take advantage of the brains we are provided with in building machines to do everything. One day we will be battling against our own technology like on the Terminator movie series. Naw I don’t think that’s its the advancement in technology, it just gets me when people don’t seem like they want to just try and get out of the little obstacles they are faced with. Like I said as far as a device to replace a person for attention that’s acceptable because I feel children and the elderly always need attention but enough is enough there has to be a cut off point.

In a more increasingly issue that is beginning to become a major deal in peoples lives across the universe with the increase in highly trained robots that are simulated as real human beings, scientist say this is an issue “where reality is finally catching up to the science-fiction hype”. These mechanisms are being created and to be used in countries as far as Korea. They are being used by all age groups from children to the elderly part of this society.

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