Star Wars – Robots in movies

      Star wars is a movie produced by George Lucas. It’s about a jedi (a knight with a laser sword) who was called Anakin Skywalker. Anakin is a slave on Tatooin but Obiwan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jin saved him when he was still a child.

     In the first movie Qui-Gon Jin died, killed by Dark Maul, a sith (the opposite of a jedi). In the third movies Anakin becam Dart Vader (“Dark Vador” in french) and Dark Sidious (alias Palpatine) became his master. Anakin’ son, Luke Skywalker born in the fourth movie. Anakin has to kill his father : Dart Vader.

In the all movies, the jedi and the sith use a lot of robot, for exemple:

Droid of protocol :

 -C-3PO : the most popular of the droid of protocol. He is a specialize in translation. he is made by Anakin in the first movie.

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-TC-14 : is a droid of protocol too. She receive the jedi on the flagship droid in the first movie.

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Astromech droid :

 -R2-D2 : is the most popular droid in star wars. He is created to fix the ships. It belongs to Padmé Amidala in the first movie, to Anakin Skywalker in the episode 2 and 3, to Luke Skywalker in the episode 4 to 6.

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Battle droid :

 -there are three kind of battle droid, a battle droid, a ultra battle droid and a droideka.

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Liar – Robots in litterature

Isaac Asimov is an american author who was born in 1920 and died in 1992. He was really fond of science fiction and he wrote a lot of popular science books. The best known of his books is certainly I-Robot because this book inspired it inspired the famous movie I-Robot made by Alex Proyas in 2004.
In the fifth chapter of I-Robot, there are four characters : Alfred Lanning, Peter Bogert, Milton Ashe and Susan Calvin. Lanning is the boss and the others are under his orders even if they don’t always like what is asking to them. All these characters are sientists in robotics and they are facing a problem that is very awkward : they have made a robot called RB-34 (or Herbie) who can read in human minds, but they don’t know how is it possible and which program they have put in the robot’s brain to allow it to read in minds. Then Lanning asks to Bogert and Ashe to check every program and every thing they have done during the robot’s production that can be the key to solve the problem. Of course, they didn’t want to talk to anyone else about the problem because it could be revolutionary and even very dangerous.
At the end of the chapter, Bogert and Lanning were arguing because the robot had told to Bogert something that Lanning didn’t want to know because it would have mean that the robot were smarter than the scientist. But Lanning weren’t present while the robot told it to Bogert. Here’s the thing : the robot can’t tell something to someone if it might hurt someone around. So when Bogert wanted the robot to repeat waht it said in front of Lanning, the robot didn’t say anything. Then, the doctor Calvin began to ask the robot to guess and say the things that could have hurt one of the two scientists but each time she asked it, the robot didn’t want to say anything, so eventually the robot became totaly crazy and fell on the floor, touching it with its face, and it died.

Elie

Code Explanation

some videos of our operating robot:

 

 

OUR CODE Explanation:

Programe

Here our robot is scanning the color.

If the scanned object is not black, then it scans the color a second time; otherwise the robot continues to scan the color under the color sensor.

After, if the color is white the robot picks up the brick; or else the robot continues to scan the color.

If the robot has picked up the brick he take it to the left.

It drops the brick and go back to the start position.

Marc

Article about chapter 5 of I robot, Isaac Assimov

Isaac Asimov was an American sci-fi writer. He was born in 1920 in Russia and he died in the USA in 1992. He wrote a book called I robot. That book inspired the film of Alex Proyas. The chapter 5 is named Liar. This chapter is about a robot “RB-34″,also named Herbie. He can read in human minds. Alfred Lanning, Peter Bogert and Milton Ashe are his designer and Susan Calvin is a robot-psychologist . The robot lies to Susan: he tells her that Milton Ashe love her. After Bogert go speak to the robot and same as Susan Herbie lies to Peter: he says him that Lanning has resigned so Bogert will be the next director. When Ashe says to Calvin that he will get married Susan get angry. She goes to speak with Herbie and she says to the robot that what he said is not true and he tell her he just want to help people. After Bogert and Lanning go speak with the robot and Lanning question the robot:”Have you talked to Dr Bogert about me ?”. After Susan asks him a lot of questions and Herbie become crazy. She asks him a same and last question and the robot dies.

Article about Star wars

The Star Wars world is inspired by lots of cinematographic work (serials,westerns,Japanese cinema) and also by litterature work( books of Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov and J.R.R Tolkien).

Star Wars takes place in the future in a faraway galaxy. It’s the story of the Skywalker family (Anakin Skywalker in episodes 1,2,3 and Luke Skywalker in episodes 4,5,6).There are two sides of the Jedi Force (the « good » side of the Force) and Siths (the dark side of the Foorce).Anakin Skywalker a little boy of Tatooine planet will become a jedi, the « chosen » : he had to restore the balance in the Force. He became a Jedi but Palpatine, emperor of Siths will change Anakin’s opinion and he will become a Sith. His son Luke Skywalker will become a Jedi and will fight the galactic empire …

Robots in Star Wars

Robots have a very important place in Star Wars. The most important ones are C3PO and R2-D2. C3PO is a protocol robot.

R2-D2, is a kind of robot which is in the movie Star Wars to play as a robot character. Usually it’s called R2 because it’s more easy to speak like that. R2-D2 is one of the roles which appeared in all the Star Wars movies,

C-3PO
This is a kind of robot which is used to translate the language for its owner and looks like a human.It is 167cm tall and always supports its owner.

DESTROYERDROID
it has a Protective shell which has no colour., it is very strong and is very eager to destroy other things. Also it can be dangerous.

17 December

On the 17 December, we was trying the robot in a Labyrinth to test the Program. After some fails, Camille have corrected the bugs.

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-Camille

10th December

At the 10th December, we have finished the robot, and we have started the programming.

While Matthieu was writing the program, Camille, Aymeric, Xangru and Linyan started to write articles for the blog, like the Presentation, or the NXT Project.

Here is a screenshot of the NXT Programming softawre named LEGO MINDTORMS.

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Here is Matthieu who writes the program.

-Matthieu B.