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“Robotics & Bionics, reflexions”

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Robosapiens


Robosapiens

at UBI

Robosapiens at UBI


Robosapiens at UBI

“Robotics & Bionics, reflexions”

bionic hands

artificial arm

artificial leg

robotic wheelchair

control of insulin in diabetic patients

artificial kidney, hemodialysis machine

aortic valve replacement

artificial heart

exoskeletons

genetic mutation

We have already mentioned devices or machines that make

the human beings capable of ‘enhanced power’



� there are some ‘skills’ or ‘abilities’ or ‘talents’ or ‘attributes’ of the ‘human being’ that we still do not have the capacity to reproduce artificially with perfection.

On the other hand, there are some ‘skills’ or ‘abilities’ or ‘talents’or ‘attributes’ that technology is capable to reproduce artificiallywith perfection and sometimes can do that better than us.

[ although this is often done by an alternative form ]

We are talking about human ‘skills’ or ‘abilities’ or‘talents’ or ‘attributes’, but also of the ‘living beings’in general

Who is winning the race at this moment? evolution? or technology?



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calculations?

machine?human?

attention, concentration


a movie film of 1936

a movie film of 1936


robotics

robots are much better than humans for doing repetitive or tedious tasks.


robotics


surgeries


precision in the movements

surgeries


robotsused in

surgeries


robotsused in surgeries


robotsused in

surgeries



vision


hearing


diving, going under the

water

fish robot underwater robot

submarine


flying


airplanes

balloons

parachutes

helicopters


space rockets

gliders

delta wings

zeppelins


But none of these ways of flying uses the same technique that evolution adopted for the living beings that fly (flapping the wings)


The machines that we humans created to ‘fly’

need a structure

airports

handling luggage

air traffic

control

heliports


The machines that the human being create for this ability of

‘flying’ did not follow the same principle adopted by evolution:‘flapping the wings’

They demands a complex structure:

o runways for taking off and landing,

o airports,

o heliports,

o air traffic control system,

o fuel supply systems,

o handling luggage systems,

o security systems,

etc., etc.


walking, moving

animals too


man created machines that move on wheels


ever more sophisticate machines to move

almost always on wheels

the machines that the human being

created to ‘move’ also need a structure


roads

railways

overpasses

streets


filling stations traffic lights

sign posts

underground stations

tunnels

bus stops

signs


o streets,

o roads,

o traffic lights,

o sign posts,

o fuel supply,

o railways,

Once again here too, the machines that the human being create for this ability of ‘walking’, or ‘moving, or ‘running’, etc. did not follow the same principle adopted by evolution: using ‘legs’, or ‘paws’.

o bridges,

o overpasses,

o tunnels,

o stations,

o bus stops,

o traffic control,

etc., etc.

and this demands a complex structure

We, the human beings, build machines for almost every ‘ability’

or ‘skill’ of the living beings

These machines built by the humans to reproduce the ‘abilities’

or ‘skills’ of the living beings did not follow the evolution path


In some cases, we have to build ‘a structure’, or ‘a system’ for these machines to work

artificial organs

kidney


artificial kidney,hemodialysis machine (extracorporeal)

heart


artificial heart

artificial organs

liver

artificial liver or‘liver assisted device’

(extracorporeal)


artificial organs

artificial liver or liver assist device (extracorporeal)



industrial robots


In the past robots were sometimes portrayed in the literature and movie films as machines that resembles the humans and that they could one day to reproducethemselves and to dominate us


Today we do not have this fear anymore, today we know that industrial robots are not more than machines doing familiar tasks automatically…

… but instead, we are worried with the fact that robots are taking our ‘working places’ (or, ‘jobs’)


working places, jobs

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Car manufacturing robots


Car

manufacturing

robots


Car manufacturing robots


Manufactured products


Manufactured products

Medicine


o can have several functions

o substitute several machines

In the industry a robot


We do not have anymore several:

� heavy tasks

� unpleasant tasks

� monotonous tasks

� repetitive tasks

Which were ‘underpaid’


and, on the other hand, new tasks such as:

� supervision of robots

� programing robots

� maintenance of robots

� building robots

Not only of robots but also other machines

and robot parts

That is, tasks which are far better remunerated


In the industry robots can perform tasks such as:

screwing up,

soldering,

painting,

moulding,

forger,

cut,

perforate,

transport parts

(from place to place),

etc.


o do not receive wages/salaries

o do not eat

o do not drink

o do not go to the bathroom when working

• without stopping

• without reduce the pace

• without being tired

• without feeling sleepy

Industrial robots:

do that kind of tasks which are repetitive, monotonous, boring, dull, tedious to us, humans


� can work 24 hours per day with no rest or pauses

� do not loose the concentration

� the quality of their work is the same at the end of the dayas it is in the beginning

� they are safer than man itself in several routine works

� they are quicker and more efficient than man in the majority of the tasks

� rarely commit mistakes

Industrial robots:


Economic benefits

cost reductions

productivity gains

increase in competitiveness

efficacious process control

efficient quality control

Industrial robots:


But don’t forget that robots

are only tools

sophisticatetools


and computers are still only complex calculating machines


These machines do not ‘think’,

have no ‘inspiration’, have no

‘intelligence’

“Intelligent machines” are another chapter

“Intelligent robots” are another story which is

coming soon

Obrigado!

Felippe de [email protected]

Thank you!

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