Robots and us (William & Arthur)

Where and how are robots used?

Robots are used in multiple environments, like your house.

Have you ever used robots? Explain when, why and how

For example : your washer is nothing else than a robot, which is why me and william already used a robot because we sometimes do the laundry, because our clothes need to be washed.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of robots?

A robot makes our lives easier and more confortable, by warming up our home, cleaning it, for example and making stuff we dislike to do. Nevertheless, it consumes energy and can be a problem if we become dependent of it, and it stops working.

Part 2 :

Here’s a video presenting a robot :

– Why was this specific robot built? What need did it answer? Who created / thought about it?

This robot was created for pure fun. William Ozmann (its creator) noticed that wearing glasses through rain was quite unpleasant due to the fact that water drops stacks on the glass, so he created a robot detecting when these drops cover the glass, and when this occurs, it activates wipers on both sides which wipes the drops. The video was published in February 2018. It could be a bit useful… But they are really ugly, I wouldn’t wear them daily.

Part 3 :

Everyone says it, robots will be very important in the future, so I suppose it is true. Robots could overcome humans if we are not careful enough. I think robots can be very useful and helpful, and I can understand people who are scared of the rise of these robots, but I don’t think that they could really overcome and/or kill us all if we don’t give them the possibility.

Medical robots (Ornella and Mathilde) corrigé

Robots are used in army, medicine and also in the kitchen. In army, robots are used to create weapons. In the kitchen, robots are used to help people cooking. For us, robots are a good idea but it’s a little creepy.

The first medical robot was the Arthrobot. It was created to assist surgeons for orthopedic operations.

One of the promising new robots is the Xiao-Yi robot (Xiao-Yi means “little doctor” in chinese.). Xiao-Yi is a chinese robot who passed a medical licensing exam and he scored 456 on 600 points. This robot learnt more than one million of medical books, two million of medical records and four hundred thousand medical documents. Xiao-Yi finished the exam in sixty minutes while students need ten hours to pass the same exam.