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.

Video Game : Home sweet home

The game’s name is “Home Sweet Home” and it’s a maze.

Click here to play !

The character is called Cham and he’s the father of a large family of marshmallow. But he lost his path and he wants to go home. You have to help him to find the key of his home before he goes back.

The game is set up in two parts. The first part is composed of a labyrinth and your role is to guide Cham to the key of his house. The second part is a maze too and you have to guide Cham to his home to see his family.

We created this game with Scratch and it is made of many programs.  One of them is there to guide Cham in the labyrinth.

The biggest problem we encountered was creating a health point system. As we did not succeed, we abandoned this aspect of the project and we focused on the difficulty of the different levels of the game.

To play, click here : https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/218790006/#player