Approaches to Robotics in the United States and Japan Report of a Bilateral Exchange (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Three Generations of Robots
Three Generations of Robots
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Often the manufacturing environment is altered to accommodate them. Altering to any great extent the environments that service robots will be called upon to operate in (e.g., undersea and constriction environments, space, mines, nuclear power plants, hospitals, offices, homes)
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We reconstruct the three-dimensional world in our brains and project it onto the real three-dimensional world. To realize a robotic display, we would have to precisely measure human movements, including those of the eyes and head, in real time; construct anthropomorphic sensors and effecters that mimic our own in function and size; ensure that they can be controlled to follow precisely the movements of a human operator; and assure that the operator sees the same visual space observed by the robot by delivering the images recorded by its sensors directly to the operator's eyes.
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Indoors, the problems associated with lack of structure are somewhat more amenable to less radical adaptations of advanced industrial robot technology. Toshiba, for example, is developing robotics systems for mail feeding, address block location, and irregular parcel singulation and imaging that overcome significant limitations of existing mail sorting automation, which requires that pieces be uniform in size, shape, and address location.
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Robots with a "softer" touch, able to handle people rather than industrial machinery, could care for hospital patients and the elderly. The United States, for example, has a quadriplegic population of some 60,000, tragically augmented by 6~000 new individuals annually.
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Although U.S. committee members articulated many of the same expectations of and applications for personal robots, actual development work in the United States seems more heavily oriented toward environmental (e.g., excavation, nuclear site, space exploration)
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