Robots and you

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Robots and you

• Presented by the
• Rock Hill School District 3
• Robotics Team

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What is a Robot?

• A mechanical device that sometimes resembles
  a human.
• It is capable of performing
• many different complex human tasks on command.
• These tasks can be programmed in advance.
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Define Robot

• A machine or device that operates automatically
  or by remote control.

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Define Robot

• A person who works mechanically without original
  thought, especially one who responds
  automatically to the commands of others.

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Define Robot

• The root word for robot is based on the words
• Servant
• Slave
• Drudgery

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Define Robot

• We would all like to have a machine that could be
  our own personal servant and do the jobs that we
  dread doing.

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How do you build a robot?

• Step 1 Decide what you need the robot to do?
• Step 2 Design the robot to include parts that
  will assist in the job it is performing.

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How do you build a robot?

• Step 3 Find the right parts to build the robot
• Step 4 Build it

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What parts make up a robot?

• The same parts that
• make up your body.

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Parts of a Robot

• Your body uses a brain to control your actions.
• Robots use a microchip.

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Parts of a Robot

• Your body has a skeleton inside.

• A robot has a frame that is usually made out of
  metal

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Parts of a Robot

• Your body uses legs to move.

• Most robots use wheels to move.

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Parts of a Robot

• Your body uses arms to grab.

• Robot can have arms, too.

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Parts of a Robot

• Energy Your body uses food.

• Energy A robot uses a battery.

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Parts of a Robot

• Some robots even have eyes to see - video
  cameras.

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Parts of a robot

• Robots that are controlled REMOTELY will have a
  control station with a transmitter and a receiver
  on the robot that receives the radio waves.

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Parts of a Robot

• Also, some robots
• Have facial
• expressions

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Imagine how we could use robots in the future
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If High School students can build robots today.
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Will they be in your home in a few years?