Robotics & Artificial

Intelligence

From Reality to Hollywood

What is a Robot?

Robotics

A robot is a machine that gathers information about its

environment (senses) and uses that information (thinks) to

follow instructions and to do work (acts).

What is a Robot?

A robot is an electro-mechanical or bio-

mechanical device or group of devices that can perform

a repetitive or preprogrammed tasks.

A robot may act under the direct control of a human,

such as the arm on a space shuttle, or under the control of a programmed

computer.

What is a Robot?

What is a Robot?

This is a diagram of a robotic space arm.

What is a Robot?

Robots may be used to perform tasks that are to dangerous or difficult for

humans to do directly, such as radioactive waste

clean-up.

What is a Robot?

They may also be used to do repetitive tasks that

could be performed with more precision by a robot,

such as automobile production.

What is a Robot?

Automobile Assembly Line.

What is a Robot?

Robots are being designed to perform precision

surgery, explore space, the ocean, and other dangerous

areas.

What is a Robot?

This is the DaVinci

robot.

A surgical robot used

today.

What is a Robot?

There is endless variety in the size, shape and jobs of robots. Some robots are used day after day in

factories, while others are highly experimental and use artificial

intelligence to behave more and more like living creatures, able to act

independently in changing environments.

What is A.I. ?

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Science, which

deals with helping machines find solutions to complex

problems in a more human-like fashion.

What is A.I. ?

Artificial Intelligence

This generally involves borrowing characteristics from

human intelligence, and applying them as algorithms in a computer friendly way.

AI is generally associated with Computer Science, but it has many important links with other fields such as Math, Psychology, Cognition, Biology and Philosophy,

among many others.

What is A.I. ?

Our ability to combine knowledge from all these

fields will ultimately benefit our progress in the

quest of creating an intelligent artificial being.

What is A.I. ?

• Math – solving problems, logic.

• Psychology – the study of mental processes and behavior.

• Cognition – processing information, applying knowledge.

• Biology – the study of living organisms and how the work.

• Philosophy – wisdom and understanding.

What is A.I. ?

The potential applications of Artificial Intelligence are endless. They stretch from the military for

autonomous control and target identification, to the entertainment industry for computer games and

robotic pets.

What is A.I. ?

What is A.I. ?

This is a drone plane with A.I features.

What is A.I. ?

This is a robotic

dog with A.I. like abilities.

Lets also not forget big establishments dealing with huge amounts of information such as hospitals, banks and insurance companies, who can use AI to predict customer behavior and

detect trends.

What is A.I. ?

So What Is Next?

The development of every new technology

raises questions that we, as individuals and as a

society, need to address.