5s Implementation Manual – Starting Lean Manufacturing
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Q&A: Is this regarding Robot attachment to the original Nintendo?
Question by : Is this regarding Robot attachment to the original Nintendo?
Do you remember the original Nintendo in the 1980′s ? There was a Robot attachment that work for a few games but the product did not last long.
I heard a reason it was discontinued because it became self aware and too smart. The manufactures were afraid it would turn against the creators and customers. It would have become a huge panic.
Is this true??
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Answer by C
I kind of doubt it. ROB was controlled remotely by the NES console via light flashes from the screen (similar to light-gun games of the day, I suppose).
If they actually HAD created a fully-autonomous smart AI, someone would have written a paper on it. And at it’s size, they’d never be able to reproduce themselves and could be deactivated by stepping on them.
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Robotic vacuum cleaners, sit back, relax and let them do the work
Robotic vacuum cleaners, sit back, relax and let them do the work
As technology continues to develop, life becomes easier and there are more choices. Not only are computers developing at breakneck speeds, but even household appliances such as vacuum cleaners are evolving. Have you even heard of a robot vacuum, well you will soon enough. What are robotic vacuum cleaners, these battery powered creatures roam the floors of your home or office looking for dust and debris. They are designed to make life easier for you by vacuuming any dirt in its path.
Robot vacuums were invented by Electrolux and introduced into the consumer marketplace in 2001, then came Roomba vacuums, they perfected these cordless vacs and took them to the next level. So what can these types of vacuums do for you? Imagine this scenario, you come from a hard day at work, the kids come home with dirt all over their shoes tracking it all over your clean carpets. That would drive most parents crazy, but with the help of the Roomba vac you can read your newspaper and lets the robot do all the work for you.
Your’e probably wondering how this all work? Roomba’s vacuum cleaners use a 3 stage cleaning system, that are designed to clean the edge of your walls, underneath all types of furniture and anywhere else it detects dirt. That’s right these robots can actually detect dirty areas on your carpet or floor and do extra cleaning in those areas to clean it effectively. And these vacuums actually have a brain, they can detect areas such as stairs and actually avoid them! They use infrared sensors to detect the stairs in your home and stay away from them.
And after the room is cleaned, Roomba goes back to a recharging station to charge its battery for the next time you have a family disaster. You should know that Roomba isn’t the only company manufacturing robotic vacuum systems, other models you might want to check out include, Electrolux Trilobite, Karcher RC 3000, EVac and the Samsung VC-RP30W. The most popular of all robot vacs is the Roomba Discovery SE.
Why stress out if you don’t have to, let the robots do the work for you. Long gone are the days of vacuuming after the children. Oh, and if you’re wondering about the price of a robot vac it will run you about 0. Check prices out online to find the best deals and cheapest prices on all your cleaning needs.
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Robotics in Everyday Life
Robotics in Everyday Life
Science fiction movies would have us believe that robotics will soon be dominating our lives. Recent movies like I, Robot and A.I. offer exciting glimpses into a potential future where humans and robots live, but we’re still decades away from that. While giant strides in computers and miniaturization have rooted robotics into mainstream manufacturing and delivery of industrial products, there’s still a lot to learn. We need at least another generation or two before robotic engineering can make robots as common as your PCs at home and in the office.
Simply put, robotics is an allied application of computer science that is more involved in getting programmed instructions to make electro-mechanical devices called robots perform specialized tasks and accomplish results. And achieving that can include using more complex thinking computers that can interact with the environment, people and can move about to make things happen depending on their purposes.
Early Robots
We don’t have to search far to describe an early robotic application. Some of you may remember the jukebox. This is an excellent specimen of crude robotics where you have a mechanical arm programmed to select from an array of 45rpm records the chosen record, get to play its content and then bring it back to where the arm picked it. At home, your record changer is another example and recently CD changers likewise perform the same automated task.
What we have today.
Most robotic applications we have today are found in the manufacture and assembly of automobiles. They take the place of assembly line factory workers who perform specialized tasks, like putting rivets, attaching heavy parts, body painting, etc. In computer manufacturing, robotics also figure a lot in soldering motherboards and other delicate assembly operations. CD and DVD stamping plants have them as well. Robots have been extensively deployed in many production processes considered tedious and repetitive or menial for humans to work in.
It can be said the robotics has its first and most useful application in space and military application. Unmanned spaceships that explored the Martian landscape and went beyond Jupiter are excellent Robotic examples. The same is true with unmanned military aircrafts that perform surveillance on enemy territory.
Even in city streets, surveillance robots have made their presence useful to check buildings and locations where hostile criminal elements are hiding to pinpoint exact location before an attack or arrest is made. Hostile environments like volcanoes have been explored using robots controlled remotely to gather environmental specimens of lava soils and magmatic materials. Robots are now extensively used to explore locations and situations considered risky for human involvement.
Some hospitals are known to deploy special rolling robots that distribute and deliver prescribed medication to patients with programmed location of floors and rooms. They can even be programmed to interface with intelligent hospital elevators to reach any floor and return to the hospital pharmacy for refilling.
What to Expect in the Future
There’s no where else to go but up, so to speak. Robotics will be leveraging on the technological developments in miniaturization and computers to bring robots to the level of interaction with the environment and people to near human cognitive qualities. This, coupled with commercialization to make robots of specific domestic household benefit more affordable, should eventually make it as common as any home appliance. GP
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