Презентация по английскому языку на тему Роботы в современной жизни (10 класс)

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is invading the world. In the 90s and early 21st century AI achieved its greatest success. There are more and more jobs which humans leave to robots such as exploring another planet, defusing bombs, exploring inside a volcano or just doing boring household chores like cleaning. Many factory jobs are performed by industrial robots nowadays. It has led to cheaper production of various goods,including automobiles and electronics Artificial intelligence has successfully been used in a wide range of fields including medical diagnosis, stock trading, robot control, law, scientific discovery and toys. Industrial robots are also used for packaging of manufactured goods, transporting goods around warehouses or hospitals or removing tiny electronic components with great accuracy, speed and reliability. Are robots our best friends or are they dangerous?Some futurists believe that artificial Intelligence will fundamentally transform societyOther futurists and science fiction writers have predicted that human beings and machines will merge into powerful cyborgs-humans with significant mechanical enhancements. Many people fear that highly intelligent robots may take over and destroy the human race. The use of robots in industrial leads to unemployment as many jobs are performed by machines. Besides industrial robots can be dangerous and cause harm to human workers. So much attention must be paid to security. ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. The robot is 130cm tall and weight 54 kilograms. It can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h. The robot can perform various functions. ASIMO can follow the movements of people with its camera, follow a person, or greet a person when he or she approaches. ASIMO can alsorecognize when a person offers him a handshake and other people’s movements. The robot can sense the environment and avoids hitting people and other objects. It can respond to its name, face people when he being spoken to, and recognize sudden, unusual sounds. ASIMO is also able to respond to questions, either by a brief nod, a shake of the head or a verbal answer. The robot has the ability to recognize 10 different faces. By accessing information via the Internet, ASIMO can provide news and useful information. Wakamaru is a Japanese domestic robot made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The robot has been created to provide companionship to elderly and disabled people and to make their life easier. The robot is yellow, 1 m tall, and weight 30 kilograms. Wakamaru can connect to the Internet, and has limited speech and speech recognition abilities. It can say, ‘Welcome back!’. ‘Let me search the Internet’ and other simple phrases. The functions it can perform includereminding the user to take medicine on time, and calling for help if it suspects something is wrong. When its batteries run out, Wakamaru recharges itself. Hitachi created its second humanoid robot EMIEW2 in 2008. EMIEW2 weight 13 kg and can move on wheels as well as two legs. The robot is 80 cm tall, a height for looking over desk tops. It has 14 microphones which enable it to recognize human voice and sounds. The robot can distinguish voices even when three people are speaking at the same time and it can recognize voices spoken as far as 2m away. Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute of Korea has developed a robot with four human senses such as seeing, hearing, touching and smelling. POMI (Penguin robot for Multimodal Interaction) can move the eyebrow, eye lid, eye ball and lips. It also uses various colors to show face expressions. POMI has two kinds of built-in scent sprays to express happiness, sadness, and joy. It also has a heartbeat device which makes people feel like the robots heart really beats up when they put the hands on the left chest of the robot, It also can talk to people through a built-in speaker.