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Robots … in the image of Man

Robots … in the image of Man. Art, Technolgy and the Body H.J. Sommer III Professor of Mechanical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University www.me.psu.edu/sommer. in the image of Man. Robot – the word. robota – Czech for forced labor “Rossum’s Universal Robots” play, Karel Kapek, 1921.

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Robots … in the image of Man

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  1. Robots …in the image of Man Art, Technolgy and the Body H.J. Sommer III Professor of Mechanical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University www.me.psu.edu/sommer

  2. in the image of Man

  3. Robot – the word • robota – Czech for forced labor • “Rossum’s Universal Robots”play, Karel Kapek, 1921

  4. Metropolis, 1926

  5. Metropolis, 1926

  6. C3P0 versus Arnold

  7. BattleBots, 2000

  8. Robot – a definition • Robotic Industries Association • reprogrammable manipulator

  9. The first real robot, 1961 • Machine tool + Computer • Unimate 2000 • Engelberger and Devol • Handle hot castings

  10. The first real robot, 1961

  11. The first real robot, 1961

  12. Robot motion • Cartesian • Cylindrical • Spherical • Anthropomorphic

  13. Robot power • Pneumatic • Hydraulic • Electrical

  14. Early robot applications • Machine loading • Welding • Painting • Assembly

  15. PUMAProgrammable Universal Manipulator for Assembly

  16. Robots - today

  17. Robots - today

  18. Robots - today

  19. New robot applications • Semiconductor • Surgery • Mobility • Remote sensing

  20. Robots - tomorrow

  21. Shortfalls – robots versus human • Sentience • Sensors • Dexterity • Power • Mobility

  22. Advantages – robots versus human • Precision • Reparability • Hazardous environments • Stasis

  23. Perception versus measurement • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle • Our organo-receptors contaminateperception • Art • Emotions • Drugs

  24. For a breath I tarry … Therefore, Solcom’s strangest creation was given dominion over half the Earth, and they called him Frost.  For ten thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole of the Earth, aware of every snowflake that fell. Frost knew temperature but he did not know cold. novelette, Roger Zelazny, 1967 in "The Last Defender of Camelot", 1995

  25. The players • Frost – controller of the Northern Hemisphere, first and greatest of Solcom’s creations • Beta – controller of the Southern Hemisphere • Solcom – machine placed by Man in permanent orbit and invested with the power to rebuild the world • Divcom – alternate rebuilder activated when Solcom sustained minor damage from a stray atomic missile • Mordel – a minion of Divcom • Ore-Crusher – an excavator that killed the last Man in His bomb shelter, doomed to wander the Earth telling the tale of woe while carrying the bones • Man – extinct

  26. The dilemma • Frost is so efficient that he takes up a hobby – to know the nature of Man • Frost only knows measurement - not perception • Solcom and Divcom wager if Frost can learn the nature of Man • Mordel tempts Frost with knowledge about Man in defiance of Solcom and Beta • Frost constructs mechanical analogs of human sensory equipment but he still only knows measurement

  27. The question • Frost clones the body of a Man and transfers his matrix of awareness into the body for five minutes. • Has Frost become a man? • Frost declares that he has failed. • Which machine can answer this question?

  28. The answer • Perhaps our machines may help us better know ourselves

  29. in the image of Man

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