Anderson Freeman III
Mrs. Bennehaley
English 111
March 21, 2014
Robotics
Robotics can date as far back as man itself. Even during prehistoric times man has relied on different types of machine to improve life and make it easier. Throughout time man has improving robotics into the machines that we have today. Pulleys a, simple machine that dates back to around 4000 B.C.E., that was used to help lift heavy object has evolve into machines such as cranes. Even with the printing press, it used a main ancestor to the modern day computer. The machines that our ancestors had are the basis what technology that we have today. Some robotics is so advanced now that they operate on their own, even replacing some human jobs. The way robotics is advancing today there is no telling what is in store for tomorrow.
Around the time of 4000-3000 B.C.E., the first simple machines came into use in Mesopotamia (Nocks). This spread around Europe, Asia, and Africa; they were used to help irrigation for agriculture, and maintaining water levels of river (Nocks). With the simple machines it helped the people maintain their crops and do it in larger fields. This also gave the people the ability to farm different types of crops at the same time. 1500-1400 B.C.E., the Egyptians used inclined planes to help them build the monuments that are still standing still to this day (Nocks).
Now we shall move up to the Renaissance. The Renaissance inspired many great inventors including Leonardo da Vinci (Nocks). Leonardo used his sketches to create some of the most complicated robotics of time (Nocks). The things the Leonardo designed proved that he was ahead of his times. Some of his sketches are the basis for some of the machines that we use today. Another man the...
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...elped with everyday activities and daily chorus. One of these inventions was the iRobot, which was a robot that was able to vacuum floors, by itself. In Japan, they created humanoid robots that are able perform regular human tasks, including driving. “A Japanese research consortium demonstrates a humanoid robot driving a backhoe” (Nocks).
Robotics was also a major part in the military advancements that we have today, for weapons and defenses. Today the military has drones, which are unmanned aircrafts, this a huge increase in safety from what it used to be. There are also things like claymores, and mines, which can be activated just by contact, During this time during wars instead of going into an area blind and losing lives, soldiers can send tiny planes to find out how many people are across enemy, because it is able to read the temperature of the human body.
People love to discuss and imagine the future, but actually, no one knows what the future exactly looks like since it is predetermined. Robots this issue exists in the past and especially at present. From we started writing a long time ago, we had already thought of something that could obey our orders, because people desire them. People only put effort on what we wished for. And what we wished for could be seen from the abilities that we gave to the gods in mythology and from the protorobots that entertained us in the modern age. But
The Egyptians invented a plow with a wider, triangular share that turned more dirt in a wider furrow. As the population grew over time, more and more people moved into Europe. The soil contained much more moisture, and required a lot of power to be able to pull plows through it. The Dutch then invented an iron- covered moldboard that cut much better through the earth and greatly reduced the power needed (Drache 2-3). When colonists from Europe began to settle in America, they quickly recognized that if they were going to survive they needed to farm and produce crops.
The need for a steady supply of water has sparked the technological development of ancient societies. The aerial photograph of a Pre-Roman city and a LANDMAT image of Mesopotamia reveal the irrigation systems that these ancient civilizations used. The extensive and widespread network of irrigation ditches in Mesopotamian proves that the Mesopotamians had the technology required to construct and maintain these man-made canals (Sources 1 and 2). While digging water canals and constructing dams were important, it did not solve the problem of delivering the water to the crop fields. Therefore water-transporting mechanisms such as the shaduf and the saqiya were constructed. The first water-lifting machine would be the shaduf, a simple lever mechanism that was used in ancient Egypt (Source 4). The shaduf consisted of a long stick that was attached to a bucket on one end and a rock on the other to act as a counterweight. These shadufs were quite small and simple in design making them econo...
Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions were all considered fever dreams in the Renaissance era, like the equivalent of seeing a futuristic object in a science-fiction movie, but they inspired many actual products of the world of today. Some of the ideas his imagination scribbled in a notebook are the parachute, diving suit, armored cars (like army tanks), and an Ornithopter, a machine made for flight with the use of wings (Lampton Christopher).
Robots are made out of metal, plastic, aluminum, gears, bolts, wheels, sensors, memory chips, and other gadgets.
History Artifact Straightforward machines, for example, the club and paddle (cases of the lever), are ancient. More intricate motors utilizing human power, creature control, water control, wind control and even steam control go back to the vestige. Human power was engaged by the utilization of basic motors, for example, the capstan, windlass or treadmill, and with ropes, pulleys, and piece and handle courses of action; this power was transmitted as a rule with the powers duplicated and the speed lessened. These were utilized as a part of cranes and on board sends in Old Greece, and also in mines, water pumps and attack motors in Old Rome. The scholars of those circumstances, including Vitruvius, Frontinus, and Pliny the Senior, regard these motors as ordinary, so their development might be elder.
Robots can come in many size. Whatever size needed to do any task can be created. Robots can be designed to work in extremely harsh environments, such as in space, underwater, fire, etc. Thus, robots can be used instead of people when human safety is a concern. The Disadvantages of Robots
Nowadays, technology is a dominant feature in the lives of people around the world. Most daily life activities involve the use of technology which is expanding every day through scientific innovations. However, such innovations do not always occur in every part of the world, but mostly in technologically developed countries, such as South Korea, the USA and Japan. Presently, the development of robotics science has become a subject of considerable attention in those countries. According to Weng, Chen and Sun (2009, 267), “Technocrats from many developed countries, especially Japan and South Korea, are preparing for the human–robot co-existence society that they believe will emerge by 2030.”
In the article “The Robot Invasion” by Charlie Gillis it introduces the rapid development of robotics. The article talked about how robots are being operated to do little or big task that humans can do. Their are different Universities and robot developers who are creating and experimenting these robots to do different things. These robots can come in different sizes and do different task that the developer programmed it to do. The authors in this article is serious because one day robots will be the center piece in this world. Also, their are positives and negatives in the use of robots. Many people like the thought of robots doing everything and others do not like the robot idea. Even though, the use of robots are questionable; robotic developing is growing rapidly.
The number of robots used in industry increases every year as more companies realize their many benefits. Robots are the future of the manufacturing industry. As the performance and flexibility of robots increases and their prices continue to drop, many companies will uses these added incentives to invest in the future. Soon every company that has an application for a robot will be forced to invest in one, to stay competitive in the world market.
This paper discusses three aspects of the field of robotics The first is the history of where the ideas of robotics originated. Second, what was the effect that these ideas had on society? Finally, what developments in the field have proved to be useful to society?
Robotics is a branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots. Robotics is related to the sciences of electronics, engineering, mechanics and software.
The older ploughs known as the ards or the scratch ploughs age back possibly to agriculture itself. An ard is an instrument that tends to tear up the soil more than turning it over. (Comet). Heavy ploughs are asymmetrical instruments and have a moldboard attached to it to turn the soil either left or right. (Comet). The heavy plough was used to turn the soil, which improved the weed control. Also it was advantageous in Europe as the soils were clayey and this tool was strong enough to turn clayey soil. (White, L Jr.) This was a great invention as it also decreased a lot of manual labor work for the farmers and also helped in weed control as mentioned above. An improvisation to this tool,with a wheel on the bottom lead to it becoming heavier and also a high yield in food production. This wheel further decreased manual labor, as it was easy to carry the tool around. This tool is still considered a reason behind significant population and financial growth in Europe around 9000 AD (Newman).
To conclude, robots could be the backbone of the society that will result in a technological revolution. Because of robots various characteristics that do not experience fear, nor exhaustion and they are precisely programmed, which make them able to help in case of need, housework, and factories production. Society needs to put the issue of robots into consideration to satisfy any shortage exists in the world.