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Getting a robot to walk on two legs is one of the most difficult things for roboticists. (Makes you realize how wonderfully advanced our bodies are.) The most famous walking robot is Honda's Asimo. Just over three feet high, this robot pop star has already been to the Philippines and met a few lucky girls and boys. Some robots, like Sony's charming robot dog, Aibo, walk on all fours. Other robots roll around on treads like tanks or on wheels, and some even tiptoe like a spider on eight legs!
Even if robots today aren't as advanced as robots in movies or cartoons, they are good for performing repetitive tasks. Image attaching doors to a car all day, every day for the rest of your life? That would be dull, dull, DULL! For tasks like these, it's best to let a robot do it for you- they are stronger and more precise. Robots are also good for working in dangerous situations, like taking gas and lava samples from an active volcano. They don't breathe so poison fumes won't harm them, and their metal bodies can withsand much more heat than your fragile skin. Robots can also go to places humans can't. They can explore Mars or dive the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in search for suken ships.
Tech Tidbit!
Do you know where the word "robot" comes from? In 1920, Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek wrote R.U.R. (short for Rassum's Universal Robots). The play became a worldwide success. Capek got the term from his brother Josef, who derived in from the Czech word Robota, meaning drudgery or sevitude.
Getting a robot to walk on two legs is one of the most difficult things for roboticists. (Makes you realize how wonderfully advanced our bodies are.) The most famous walking robot is Honda's Asimo. Just over three feet high, this robot pop star has already been to the Philippines and met a few lucky girls and boys. Some robots, like Sony's charming robot dog, Aibo, walk on all fours. Other robots roll around on treads like tanks or on wheels, and some even tiptoe like a spider on eight legs!Even if robots today aren't as advanced as robots in movies or cartoons, they are good for performing repetitive tasks. Image attaching doors to a car all day, every day for the rest of your life? That would be dull, dull, DULL! For tasks like these, it's best to let a robot do it for you- they are stronger and more precise. Robots are also good for working in dangerous situations, like taking gas and lava samples from an active volcano. They don't breathe so poison fumes won't harm them, and their metal bodies can withsand much more heat than your fragile skin. Robots can also go to places humans can't. They can explore Mars or dive the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in search for suken ships.
Tech Tidbit!
Do you know where the word "robot" comes from? In 1920, Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek wrote R.U.R. (short for Rassum's Universal Robots). The play became a worldwide success. Capek got the term from his brother Josef, who derived in from the Czech word Robota, meaning drudgery or sevitude.
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