Validating an Idea through Research I love animation movies. To me, it’s reality but with a clay form finish and a quick life lesson thrown in. One of my favorite movies from my late teens was Robots. In the story, a young robot named Rodney invents a helper machine called Wonderbot. To create Wonderbot after so many failed inventions, Rodney does intensive technical research. After a series of adventurous meetings and mishaps, he becomes the Vice President of a big robotic company. Back then, before I even entered my current field, I wondered “He still had Wonderbot! Will it be a demanded by the citizens of Robot City?” With all the research Rodney did, he never questioned if it will be needed by the functioning robots or if something similar was already made and getting into production. He never validated his product or idea. …show more content…
Bigweld of the robotic company Bigweld Industries noted “You know, I love to tinker, but all the tinkering in the world isn't useful unless it starts off with a good idea. So, look around for a need and start coming up with ideas to fill that need. One idea will lead to another, and before you know it... [knocks over a domino row which leads to the last one flipping a light on] ...you've done it! See a need, fill a need!” But all the ideas in the universe, no matter how great or useful is not worth the time you took to think an idea up if you don’t validate through research. As a business researcher in the Caribbean, I have had clients approach me questioning their way forward. Because of confidentiality, I cannot elaborate, but, for example, one of my clients at the end of the research validation was glad she took the step to contact my company as it saved her money, time and effort. So how do we validate ideas through research: VALIDATE THROUGH
to be more than robotic, there must be something not just unknown but still undecided”
The human race has successfully repeated one of its most reliable cycles. It all starts with a piece of revolutionary technology; new possibilities begin to unveil themselves after a few clever updates and uses. Yet even as the vast majority finds promise in the new tech, critics never fail to spout their condemnations. From books to television, they have been consistent in their efforts to prevent automation. With the advent of digital technology - such as phones or computers - a new wave of critics has washed ashore. Despite the past doomsday predictions, humanity continues to thrive. Does this mean that it’s safe to disregard the new batch of naysayers as a miscalculated group of luddites? If they are correct, and we’re less capable and negatively affected by our own technology, then we should be concerned.
...day. South Korea has set an official goal of getting a robot in every home by 2013 and the Japan Robot Association predicts that the personal robot industry will be worth about $50 billion dollars a year worldwide (Bar-Cohen 162). Only time will tell if these predictions are correct. As for now, however, the nonexistence of gyros, robot nursemaids, and visavoxes should caution mankind to be more conservative in the prediction of the future, at least until the science fiction of 1965 finally becomes complete science fact.
These issues could have been resolved if a proper market analysis was done. The outcome of this research could have suggested that it best suits highly populated areas. The objective of this research is to help a company or an entrepreneur understand the business environment better as well as customers’ needs and, therefore, make better business decisions. Once the market research data is compiled, it is then evaluated upon which recommendations and conclusions are drawn.
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, allows a machine to function as if the machine has the capability to think like a human. While we are not expecting any hovering cars anytime soon, artificial intelligence is projected to have a major impact on the labor force and will likely replace about half the workforce in the United States in the decades to come. The research in artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly at an unstoppable rate. So while many people feel threatened by the possibility of a robot taking over their job, computer scientists actually propose that robots would benefit a country’s efficiency of production, allowing individuals to reap the benefits of the robots. For the advantage of all, researchers and analysts have begun to mend the past ideas of human-robot interaction. They have pulled inspiration from literary works of Isaac Asimov whom many saw as the first roboticist ahead of his time, and have also gotten ideas of scholarly research done by expert analysts. These efforts have began to create an idea of a work force where humans and robots work together in harmony, on a daily basis.
It gets close, but never exact. However, two other key observations emerged from his experiments with this robot that helped him see that he was heading down the right path to creating a robot with a human-like learning
This critical reflection seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of how the entrepreneurial tools taught throughout this semester has assisted me in developing insightful information towards my contributions of the business plan. The process allowed me to identify, clarify and test the credibility of my personal insights. Entrepreneurial tools being assessed are customer experience mapping, questioning and idea networking. The paper started off with a detailed introduction of the actual product that my group have finalised on, then followed by comprehensive evaluations of the tools. Lastly, it ends off with a reflective conclusion with valuable learning points. All in all, it improved the quality of my contribution towards the project.
Bar-Cohen, Y. (2009). The coming robot revolution expectations and fears about emerging intelligent, humanlike machines. Springer.
Scientific progress makes huge milestones toward developing new advanced technologies which are more and more present in human lives. Today robots replace people in many spheres such as health care, security and military, industry, education, entertainment and science. Role of robots becomes more significant because they are able to do the job which people are not able to perform well. Sometimes people are too lazy to do some routine work, due to such situation those tasks could be delegated to machines. People’s life become more technology based what makes demand for efficient robots larger. Engineers say that today robots look like machines, but in near future robots will have more human appearance, today they do some simple job, but in near future much more complicated tasks would be trusted to them. History of robotics goes far to the history when the ancient Greeks describes first devices that people were projected to fly to the sky like birds. In fact, heart of any robot is some program that direct the device and control it actions. Robot cannot perform the tasks that was not programmed in it and this if the factor what makes it quite limited in its actions. Current studies in robotics are aimed to remove those disadvantages and make robots more functional and universal through development of artificial intelligence that can operate independently. Curiosity of world community to robotics increase every day what make all the research and inventions in robotics more demanded. History of robots, resent achievement and future perspectives of robotics have to be studies and researched to understand what machines can give to humanity and what pros and cons exist in the r...
1. Bonnett, Kendra, and Gene Oldfield. Everyone Can Build a Robot. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc, 1984. p 2.
When I first started robotics, I did not fully understand what an engineer was, and I had some cloudy vision of becoming a police detective in the distant future. However, the more involved I became in the robotics program, the more interested I grew in the whole concept. Being presented with a problem and limitations, such as time constraints, budget constraints, and size and weight constraints, and then have to come up with a feasible design that fits the limitations is an amazing learning experience. However, the process did not end at coming up with a design; in fact, that was just the beginning of a very long road. After the initial design was decided on, us designers spent hours coming up with CAD (computer aided design) mockups, dimensioning every single plane and meticulously going over every centimeter of the virtual version of our robot. With a solid vision in place, construction began and as we learned more about the problem and our own limitations, we were forced to perform small alterations to our design; making it dynamic to fit the ever changing
Wonder, it is something that all of us around the world can experience. We really have no idea of what wonder actually is and what it really means. Samuel Johnson and Albert Einstein both have different views of what wonder means to them. Personally I agree with Einstein more than Johnson. I have experienced wonder before, and this is how I would describe it.
Some creative ideas are amazing, simple and others complex. Creativity is a process, and it improves when a person continually work hard and come out with new ideas. Harris (1998)
One of the first robots was thought up by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was only a sketch of a mechanical knight, who was able to sit up, wave his arms, and move his head and jaws. It was unknown if he attempted to build it. Other automatons have also been created through history, but in 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created the first robot to be used for work, Televox. The first autonomous robot was created in 1948 to 1949 by William Grey Walter, which could sense light and touch, and they moved around without human guidance. Finally, the first industrial robot was called Unimate, and it was used by General Motors to lift hot pieces of metal and stack them.
He also discusses that robots are not able to perform tasks like we are. Robots can only perform explicit knowledge, or acts that require step by step knowledge, they are not good at act of tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge means it is difficult to transfer from one person to another, but more of a learning experience. The two programs that will be discussed are Computer Aided Design (CAD) for architects and the use of navigation for everyday travelers.