Pelarsen Windows is in its third generation, founded initially in 1922 by Gunnar Pelarsen and now run by granddaughter and CEO Ingrid Pelarsen. The 1990s was an era of craftsmanship. One of the noted success factors for Pelarsen Windows at the time was its transition from craft to mass production. Pelarsen was a mover in streamlining the windows manufacturing process by standardizing the various components, allowing windows to be assembled in larger volumes and at remote locations. Another one of its key success factors was its innovative products such as insulated glass, solar heating and cooling, and energy efficient windows. Due to its innovative capabilities, Pelarsen Windows had transformed glass from a commodity to a differentiating component of windows manufacturing. There are two main window types they produce; standard and architectural. Generally, sales offices decide the plants to assign orders to based on the available capacity, geographical proximity, and skill-level required. Pelarsen Windows now operates in 15 plants across North America, employs 10,000 employees and holds 34% of all windows manufacturing business in North America.…
won two teamwork awards and a robot design award in the regional competition. In addition, I…
If the president and all of the members of congress have gone on strike and nearly all the existing laws have been lost, the robot that has been given the power to construct laws would be in charge of establishing the body of essential guiding principles or established standards in accordance for the United States. Essentially, the robot would be constructing a constitution. Generally speaking, laws are enacted in order to enforce the rights of citizens and to prevent people from damaging the lives of others. We as a society have accumulated beliefs passed down from generations’ regarding what is essential to ours and others well-being. In order for laws to be followed they must appeal to the morality of the majority. People appreciate the…
There are eight sub-tests in the BOT-2 they are; fine motor precision, fine motor integration, manual dexterity, bilateral coordination, balance, running speed and agility, upper-limb coordination, and strength. There are four different ways the BOT-2 can be administered for educational use; the complete form, the short form, select composites, or select subtests.…
When Isaac Asimov envisioned a world in which robots would be as common as humans, he determined all of the ethics and morals that would bind these smart machines with three rules: “1. A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction allow it to come to harm, 2. A robot must always obey a human, unless this conflicts with the first law, 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as this doesn’t interfere with the first or second law” (Asimov, 1941). These three statements were baptized as the Three Laws of Robotics, and to the day they serve as a standard for robots and a goal for artificial intelligence researchers. But as the Laws were created in a time when people thought that by 2015 visiting Mercury would be a routine…
understanding of war, and this shapes how they view our use of robotics. Fundamentally, the…
A careful observation and analysis of Elliot’s behavior and his past is enough to diagnose him with Dissociative Identity Disorder. There is clear and enough evidence of this diagnosis throughout the first season of the show. There are two or more distinct personalities that exist in Elliot. He has his daily-life personality that we see when he is at work or socializing with friends, as well as the personality of his imagined father, also known as “Mr. Robot.” The Mr. Robot character is portrayed in the show as a separate person because the TV-show is shown from Elliot’s perspective, but in reality it just a creation and personality of Elliot himself.…
In the movie I, robot technology is associated a lot with the movie. In the movie it shows technology like transportation robots computers and weapons. “technology is more harmful then helpful.” I believe this statement is wrong. In this movie technology helps a lot, technology like transport, computers and robots. Transportation in the movie I robot is more advanced.…
1) The research about robots really helped us to upgrade our team cooperative level, interactions and even leadership quality.…
Czech Author Karel Capek, the man who coined the term robot, an army of mechanical monsters that succeeded in taking over the world, in his 1921 play R.U.R. Today, real-life versions are starting to find places in factories and plants, which are taking over a number of our industries most monotonous jobs. Unlike the robots of the past, which are usually stationary and must be manned by production workers, these newer, smarter, industrial robots can be moved from job to job and programmed to perform task on their own.…
Robot in Society: Friend or Appliance? Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arti_cial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square, Room 938 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA email: cynthia@ai.mit.edu Abstract This paper discusses the role that synthetic emotions could play in building autonomous robots which engage people in human-style social exchange. We present a control architecture which integrates synthetic emotions and highlight how they influence the internal dynamics of the robot 's controller | biasing attention, motivation, behavior, learning, and the expression of motor acts. We present results illustrating how this control architecture, embodied within an expressive robot and situated in a social environment, enables the robot to socially influence its human caregiver into satisfying its goals. 1 Robot in Society The number of service robots performing useful tasks such as delivering o_ce mail or hospital meals is growing and may increase dramatically in the near future (Klingspor, Demiris & Kaiser 1997). In Japan, MITI initiative. Possible applications include bringing humanoid robots into the household to serve as nursemaids and butlers for Japan 's growing elderly population (Inoue 1998). As the tasks autonomous robots are expected to perform become more complex, so do the robots themselves. This raises the important question of how to properly interface untrained humans with these sophisticated technologies in a manner that is intuitive, e_cient, and enjoyable to use. This paper examines several key issues in building socially intelligent autonomous robots (SIARs) that engage humans in unconstrained social interactions. Going beyond the view of human-robot communication as transferring task-based information via intuitive communication channels, we argue that creating SIARs will require Support for this research was provided by a MURI grant under the O_ce of Naval Research contract N00014{95{1{ 0600 and the…
I should be a Robotics Software Engineer. My whole life has been spent messing around with technology. I want this career because it pays well and is entertaining to me. My two favorite subjects are science and math. I am learning multiple programming languages.…
50 years ago, it could not be possible to think in a future with innovative cell phones, internet, amazing TV set, and some others modern electronic devices that nowadays we can see everywhere. Robots are one of the most interesting inventions of the past century, according to Wikipedia, the first robot put to industrial work was called UNIMATE and it was invented in 1954. Since then, many robots have been invented in order to help people at hardworking work. At present, many factories use many sort of robots. The future is not written yet and who knows weather humans will develop new advanced generations of humanoid robots with Artificial Intelligence. Basically, future robots can help us to deal at housework and at scientific areas.…
I, Robot is set in the year 2035 where a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. I’m a fan of Will Smith and this movie turned out to be highly entertaining! But of course, I can tell something more detailed about the movie. The movie gives us the idea of the near future where humanity succeeded in solving broader problems by using human level artificial intelligence, thus they created robots. The robots purpose is to serve humanity and make tasks easier for them or even provide security.…
A robot is defined as a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform most tasks automatically or with some guidance. A robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by a computer of some sort and an electronic programming. Many people think it is a machine that imitates a human—much like the androids in Star Wars, Terminator and Star Trek. People still haven 't been able to give a robot enough understanding to reliably interact with the world. The types of robots that you will encounter most frequently are the robots that will do work that is too dangerous, vigorous, or just plain nasty. They can be found in auto, medical, manufacturing and space industries. In fact, there are over a million of these types of robots working for us today. Robotics has other uses that can help people with everyday life. They have come a long way since Leonardo Da Vinci first drew up designs for robotic equipment in the 1400’s, and even earlier before that to the Chinese in an estimated time of 50 BC. However there is a fear in today’s society that advancement in robotics may lead to a dooms day scenario.…