1. Watch the video about “The Intelligent Robot” and fill in the gaps below:

To me, a robot is a machine that has some way of (1)

with its environment and has some way of making at least some kinds

of decisions on its own.

There has been a (2)

amount

of effort invested in trying to understand how the human brain works, and much

of that has paid (3)

How you actually make those things work in the real world (4)  to be a significant challenge.

This is the

engineering model of the Mars Rover which is a (5)

The Mars Rover and, actually, almost all (6) have some level of autonomy where they can make their own decisions. 

It

feels that there’s a change in the terrain and can see where there’s a big rock

or a big (7)

The robot autonomy is the ability to act

in its environment without having a human (8)

We can (9) say to the robot, “Explore the world."

It’s very easy to put yourself in the head of

the robot. Why is it doing that? I think it’s doing this and you also get

(10)

People don’t appreciate quite how

difficult the vision problem is because we do it so naturally. A very large

proportion of your brain is devoted to the problem of interpreting that (11)

We can teach a robot this is a

rock. The problem is that then you

put some grass in front of the rock, and suddenly it’s a different thing. The

robot no longer recognizes it as a rock. Overcoming that challenge, it’s been a

long, long, (11)

2. Find answers to the questions below. Make notes in your notebook.

1)     What is an intelligent robot?

2)    

What part of the human body needed

to be studied thoroughly in order to develop a thinking robot?

3)    

What is the main job of the Mars

Rover?

4)    

The Mars Rover is described as

having some level of “autonomy.”  In the

context of the video, what does

5)     What does LAGR stand for?

6)    

What is the first human sense that

learning robots are taught to understand?

7)    

What is the biggest problem that

occurs when trying to teach a robot to see?