Robots and humans? living side by side??

Many researchers and scientists all over the world are creating humanoid robots to help with the work but one country has gone up and beyond all the others and has created robots that can vacuum office corridors, spoon-feeding the elderly, work in factories and be used as receptionists. For example even though robots are no where close to having the same "emotional complexity" as humans, students at a university lab at Tokyo are creating a robot that shows the basic six expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. when you say a word like war the robot shows a expression of disgust and when you say love, the robot starts to smile. Scientists hope to soon have a robot in every home and a scientist named Hiroshi Ishiguro even hopes there are so many robots that some people might even ask you, "are you a human or are you a robot?!"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/03/03/robot.nation.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Class response- podcast

In science class we are researching about scientists and making podcasts abouts them. My partner and I got a scientist named Debra R. Rolison who realllllllllly wants to get rid of discrimination of women in science. Dr. Rolson has gotten a B.S. in Chemistry from Florida Atlantic University in 1975 and a PH.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 under the guidance of Royce Murray. Soon after that Debra joined the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C as a research chemist. Now she is a head in the Advanced Electrochemical Materials section and is also an Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. The main things she studies are multifunctional nanoarchitectures for catalytic chemistry's, energy storage and conversion, biomolecular composites, porous magnets, and sensors. Because Dr. Rolison strongly believes that women should not be discriminated because of their gender, she writes and gives speeches about how women shouldn't be given equal chances as men because of their gender. So hats of to you Dr. Rolison for trying to stop women from being discriminated!!

http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/staticpages/conference/speakers2007
http://www.nanocenter.umd.edu/nanoday/2007/speakers/rolison/

Current Event- New Robot

Sylvain Calinon and some of his fellow workers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have designed a software that lets the workers there to teach the robot to do tasks, like picking a book up. Workers use a motion sensors that record the upper body movement and then guiding the robot’s limbs to do the motion. You can watch the staff of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology teach the robot basic movements, such as picking up a dice, at http://www.calinon.ch/videos.php. This 60cm tall and 8.8kg robot called HOAP-3 is made by a Japanese company called Fujitsu. Even though they haven’t exactly decided what the price HOAP-3 is, Fujitsu Automation announced o­n the 5th of December that they will begin accepting orders for this talented robot. HOAP-3 has improved it’s movement capabilities, external recognition and communication functionality from its older editions. A camera, microphone, speaker, expression LED, audio recognition function, voice synthesis function, and image recognition function have also been added so scientists can use brilliant robot for studies such as hand-eye coordination and human communication. Sylvain Calinon hopes that HOAP-3 will allow consumers to teach domestic robots to simple chores around the house. Having HOAP-3 will make your life easier and will have your mom stop bugging you to clean up your room!!! I think that HOAP-3 is great because it will help Scientists with their reasearch and also it can also get Moms everywhere to stop bugging there kids to clean their room if there is HOAP-3 to do all the work!!!!

http://www.techjapan.com/Article1037.html

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19626356.500-humanoid-robot-finds-learning-childs-play.html?feedId=being-human_rss20

Help feed the hungry!!!!!

United Nations, a non-profit organization, will give away free rice to people if you and everyone else are willing to help. All you have to do to help feed the needy is go http://www.freerice.com/ and click the synonym of the word given and if you get it right United Nations will give 10 grains of rice to the hungry. If you answer about 25 times and get 20 questions correct you will have donated 200 grains of rice to the people who really need it!

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I can't really decide what my favorite tv show is. I usually just watch whats coming on.
My fav. meal is cheese pizza because it makes a good snack and it's tasty.
My fav. non-school activity is probably swimming.
Someone i look up to is my mom because she is smart and understanding.
My goal for the future is... i don't really know but i wanna be a lawyer or astronaut.
In the first hour after school i am usually watching tv.

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