programmable in three or more axes‚ which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications. This definition works well for ISO’s main concern‚ industrial robotics‚ but it doesn’t really take care of other realms. Joseph Engelberger‚ a literal pioneer in industrial robotics‚ once said‚ "I can’t define a robot‚ but I know one when I see one." Robots can also be defined in a different way. A robot can be described as a mechanical or virtual‚ artificial agent‚ where
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questions of ethics arise. Robotics has slowly evolved into the battlefield with machines like drones and UAVs leading the way. While intimidating‚ the inclusion of robots in warfare seems to be a natural evolution. With human oversight‚ advancements in robotics serve to bring a new dimension of defense. In We Should Not Ban ‘Killer Robots‚’ and Here’s Why by Evan Ackerman and “War Machines: Recruiting Robots for Combat” by John Markoff‚ the authors discuss the evolution of robotics in warfare. Among the
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And as people go into space‚ machines will go along. Of all the machines we have used and imagined‚ none have captured our interest and feelings so strongly as the class of machines called robots. The International Space Station’s new Canadarm2 robotic arm grasps a Spacelab pallet while Canadian mission specialist Chris A. Hadfield helps maneuver it into loading position while on a space walk. But what exactly is meant by the term "robot"? Moreover‚ how is it decided that it is better to use
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accidents on the roads. Alpha = 5%‚ Sample Size = 40‚ for calculating Beta u = 2790 psi. H0 : u> 2‚800 Test Hypothesis Sigma 10 Sample Size 40 Alpha 0.05 Z alpha -1.644853627 Z calculated 2797.399258 X bar 2790 Z critical 4.679701693 Power 0.999998564 Beta 0.000001436 Calculate Power and Beta for the sample size 30‚ 40‚ 60 and 80. Alpha = 5%. Beta(β) at different sample size with alpha 0.5 There are two methods for calculating Beta‚ 1st method: Direct use
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Information on the accident Piper Alpha accident happened in the 6th of July in 1988. In this accident 167 men died including 165 out of 226 workers of the platform and 2 members of the rescue crew. The series of explosions that started at 10.00 pm destroyed the platform in less than one and a half hour. It happened on the production deck which consisted of four modules. Module A - oil is piped up from the sea Module B – Process oil and gas Module C - Process oil and gas Module D – Power
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Support for this ~esea~ch was provided by gI’ants from the Program on the Social Impacts of Information and Robotic Technology at Carnegie-Mellon University to both authors a‚d by a grant f~om the National Science Foundation (No. RII-840991) to the fi~st author. Parts of this chapter were wri tten while the fi~st autho~ was on leave in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanfo~d Unive~sity. Robots are bei~g i~troduced i~ i~creasi~g ~umbers throughout
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In the fall of 2010 Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Utah (Alpha Tau) was at a point of crisis. The chapter received a membership review in response to poor membership‚ lack of accountability and apathy. Following the membership review the house was left with dwindled membership and a group of disheartened members who remained. The following spring the remaining members of the house opted to not take on a new member class. Instead they would build a foundation within the active chapter of
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Calculating Beta for Compuware Corporation Financial websites tend to calculate beta on securities differently for publicly traded companies. Beta is merely an estimable measure of an assets’ risk in relation to the market. Because each website has their own underlying assumptions‚ they compute beta to have different values. In some cases‚ the variance in beta is as large as 0.50. To find out what underlying assumptions websites used to compute their betas‚ we performed a series of regression
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1. Evaluate Alpha Natural Resources’ (ANR) corporate social responsibility CSR) performance. Be sure to reference information both from the company’s own webpages and from the media or watchdog agencies. Alpha Natural Resources is one of the largest coal producers in the United States. It’s business ranges from extracting‚ processing and marketing steam and metallurgical coal to services related to equipment repairs‚ road construction and logistics. The company’s clients include electric utilities
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and workers for their human owners‚ this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning‚ who works at U.S. Robotics‚ in which a robot‚ Sonny ‚ appears to be implicated‚ even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics‚ which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws‚ there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world‚ as humans have grown to become
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