2nd nine weeks Central Idea Review

What do you get when you cross a robot and astronaut? A robonaut! Robonauts are robot helpers designed to work side-by-side with astronauts. Work on the first Robonaut began in 1997, and by 2002 roboanaut Be they have featured interchangeable lower bodys, like four-wheel mode for hydraulic legs, but scientist and engineers continue to improve robonauts. In February of 2010, robonaut 2 was released to the public. Robonaut 2 moved four times faster than the first robonaut. An advanaced version of robonaut 2 was finally tested in outerspace in 2011. Robonaut functioned exactly as designed.

What is the Central Idea of this Paragraph?

• The Robonaut got more advanced

• the Robonaut got more advanced as time went by.

• Robonaut 2 was 4 times faster than the first.

• The robonaut got less advanced as time went by.

Automation is the use of machines to reduce the need for human labor. In other words automation is when jobs done by people become jobs done by robots. Automation can be good thing. Because of automation, clothing, cars, and other manufactured products are available at good prices and in large supply. But automation can also be a bad thing. Because of automation, there are over 700,000 robots in America alone that do jobs once performed by humans. the way of automation may not be best for humanity, but it is the course we are taking.

What is the Central idea?

• Automation is bad because it takes away jobs from humanity

• Automation is a bad thing.

• Automation is a good thing.

• Automation can be a good thing, but also a bad thing.

From airplanes to forklifts, hydraulic power is the strength behind many amazing technologies that affect out daily lives even the breaks on your school bus, but how do they work? First, fluid is rapidly released into a chamber through a valve. As the fluid collect, the valve is slammed shut which causes a pressure spike. Because the chamber is sealed, the pressure has nowhere to go. The hydraulic mechanism channels the pressure and provides great power. And that's how, with the help of hydraulics, Grandma can stop a car with one foot.

• grandma can stop a car with one foot

• All of the above

• how hydraulic power works

• Hydraulic power works as the fluid is rapidly released into a chamber through a valve

Many people use the words cyborg and android interchangeably when, in favt, they have different meanings. Both terms refer to beings powered by robotics, but an android is powered entirely by robots. Though androids are completely mechanical, they are designed to look like humans. They may have synthetic skin, hair, and other features, but not human organs. On the other hand, cyborgs are part human and part machine. They may gave robotic hands, legs, or eyes, but all cyborgs have surgically implanted technologies that enhance their abilities.

• Android and cyborg have different meanings

• Androids are powered by robots

• Cyborgs are part human and part machine.

• none of the above above

It is widely acknowledged fact that machines are stronger than people, but is it possible for them to become smarter than us too? Some scientists fear that it is ,or says the theory of technological singularity says that when a computer becomes capable of improving its own capabilities, even in just the slightest way, it will go into an infinite loop, getting progressively smarter, which would inevitably lead to machines becoming smarter than people, or so the theory goes. Such gains in available intelligence might lead to huge improvements in science and medicine. Diseases could be cured and so forth. On the other hand, it could lead to the total domination of mankind by robots, which would be bad. I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.

• technological singularity would create super robots

• gains in intelligence might lead to machines becoming smarter than people

• it is organized as cause and effect

• diseases could be cured with robots

Fellow Members of the springfield Robotics Club: It has come to my attention that the workshop has been left an absolute mess on at least two separate occasions. Remember, that this is a shared space, so we must clean up behind ourselves after every meeting. It is in the spirit of keeping our club meeting space that we establish this rule: when you take a tool off the rack, put it back. If everyone puts their tools back immediately after they are done using them, there will be minimal mess to clean up, and we won't get kicked out of the spot. So if you like having a meeting place, put your tools back.

• members in the robotics club could improve their nonconformance

• members in the robotics club could improve their etiquette

• members in the robotics club could improve their rudeness

• Problem and solution