5. Истинны или ложны следующие высказывания

1. To be autonomous means to exist or act separately from other things or people.

2. The robots of 1960s and 1970s were intelligent by today’s standards.

3. It is easy to give a robot the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks.

4. Speech understanding and machine vision are big unsolved problems in robotics research.

5. The touch feedback makes manipulating objects much better.

6. Robots come in all shapes and sizes.

6. Составьте пары близких по значению слов

Dull, tender, hurt, universal, struggle, constant, quench , intelligence, cool, uninteresting, mind, devote, combat, dedicate, injure, delicate, general-purpose, steady

7. a) Переведите следующие слова и словосочетания

Existence, exist, peaceful co-existence

Miracle, miraculously, work miracles

Currently, direct current, current events

the Universe, laboratory universe, universal laws

Fine, fine edge, fine tuning

Clumsy person, clumsiness

precise point positioning, mathematically precise, desired precision

plane Earth, the Earth, earth

б) Составьте предложения

8. Ответьте на следующие вопросы

1. What does building robots involve?

2. How was a manlike mechanical device capable of performing human tasks or behaving in a human manner called before the 1960s?

3. What kind of jobs do robots perform?

4. How do we expect robots to work?

5. Is there a clear dividing line between fully autonomous robots and human-controlled machines?

6. When did the word robotics appear?

7. Who was the prototype industrial robot arm named Unimate designed by?

8. Were the robots of 1960s and 1970s intelligent by today’s standards?

9. What are the problems in robotics?

10. Who is the author of Laws of Robotics?

9. Соедините слова с их определениями (одному слову может соответствовать несколько определений)

repetitive feedback intelligence constrain robot feedback artificial

a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, esp. one programmable by a computer the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills containing or characterized by repetition, esp. when unnecessary or tiresome information about reactions to a product, a person's performance of a task, etc., used as a basis for improvement the modification or control of a process or system by its results or effects, e.g., in a biochemical pathway or behavioral response the return of a fraction of the output signal from an amplifier, microphone, or other device to the input of the same device to limit or restrict produced by man

10. Вставьте пропущенные слова

Development, artificial, sophisticated, remote, repetitive, steadier, constrain, vision, replaced, capabilities

1. Building robots involves the… of a wide range of skills

2. Nowadays, the word robot is often applied to any device that works automatically or by …control, especially a machine (automaton) that can be programmed to perform tasks normally done by people.

3. Research has been … by a lack of funds.

4. Experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms has created a zoo for children where rabbits, ponies and pigs, have been… with robotic “pets.”

5. Robots are really good at …tasks.

6. Even a surgeon with … hands can not stay as still as a robotic arm.

7. Although the appearance and …of robots vary vastly, all robots share the features of a mechanical, movable structure under some form of autonomous control.

8. The biggest change in the past five years is how …-guided robotic systems are used.

9. … skin is a product which can be used for temporary or permanent replacement of damaged skin.

10. By introducing a more …control element, the microprocessor, you introduce a significant new tool in solving the robot control problem.

11. Neurosurgeons may one day get help in operating rooms from a robot with movements 10 times than … the human hand to perform delicate brain surgeries.

11. a) Переведите следующие словосочетания

1. a way

2. a way of life

3. the way home

4. out of the way

5. on the way

6. in smb’s own way

7. by the way

8. give way to

9. in a way

10. under way

11. the Milky Way

б) Вставьте пропущенные слова: by the way, Milky Way, in the way, a long way, all the way , a way (2), a way of life, out of the way, under way