year ago‚ Amazon.com workers had to hike miles of aisles each shift to "pick" each item a customer ordered and prepare it for shipping. Now the e-commerce has boosted efficiency and given workers’ legs a break by deploying more than 15‚000 wheeled robots to crisscross the floors of its biggest warehouses and deliver stacks of toys‚ books and other products to employees. Amazon.com Inc. faced its single biggest day of online shopping on Monday‚ has invested heavily this year in upgrading and expanding
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Isaac Asimov’s The Robots of Dawn is an enjoyable read‚ showing many aspects of Asimov’s style and themes. It follows the format of a standard detective novel‚ but with many of Asimov’s characteristic science fiction elements such as interstellar travel‚ flying cars‚ and robots. Two major elements of Asimov’s style are very noticeable in this book: simplicity and dialogue. Despite the technology introduced and the length of the story‚ it was never confusing‚ nor would a reader ever be lost. Asimov’s
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fiction movies have depicted robots as very sophisticated machines built by humans to perform complex operations‚ to work with humans in safe critical missions‚ in hostile environments‚ or more often to pilot and control spaceships in galactic travels. At the same time‚ however‚ intelligent robots have also been depicted as dangerous machines‚ capable of working against man through wicked plans. In the Terminator the view of the future is even more catastrophic: robots will become intelligent and
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The study of robot kinematics‚ require a unified methodology to identify the variables of a robot’s or manipulator’s joints and links. Co-ordinate Frames Robotic kinematics depends on the use of right handed cartesian frames of reference. Manipulator Geometry A manipulator consists of two types of joints‚ connected by a link. Link A link is a solid mechanical structure which connects two joints. The main purpose of a link is to maintain a fixed relationship between the joints at
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1. our biome is located in Russia 2. Climate in the taiga is cold‚ with average annual temperatures from about +5 to -5 C. Precipitation varies‚ from about 20 cm of precipitation per year to over 200 cm. 3. Many plant species are found in the Taiga‚ but coniferous trees are obviously the dominant plant form. These trees shed snow easily‚ and they retain their needles through the winter. The needles themselves are well-adapted‚ with thick waxy coatings and small surface area‚ to resist
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Gareth Morgan’s Metaphors of Organizations Introduction Metaphors help simplify complex concepts by integrating an already know term to a new term‚ therefore making it more comprehensible to the readers. In his book‚ Images of Organization‚ Gareth Morgan (2006) simply applied metaphors in bringing to our understanding the different perspectives and faces of organizations (Bottero‚ K‚ 2013) This paper would pinpoint and attempt to examine the major metaphoric postulations of
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Islamic Azad University - Takestan Branch English Language Department Master ’s Research Proposal Entitled: The effect of Task-based Instruction and Content-based Instruction On the comprehension and Production of Existential Constructions by Iranian EFL Learners February 2012 Introduction The acquisition and appropriate use of grammatical constructions have always been one of the significant dimensions of foreign language teaching. They have always been at the center of attention in
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For many decades‚ the US military has‚ engaged with Hollywood’s movies by giving permission to their production crews to use their military machines and techniques. Black Hawk Down was about the US military‚ Top Gun was about the Navy‚ and Iron Man was about the Air Force (McMillen). These kinds of movies are regarded as joint-military force movies‚ and one of the largest joint-military movies is Transformers‚ which was released in 2007. The third series was recently released‚ which is now being
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beneficial ways of evaluating robot motion before implementation in real platform. The motion planning is one of important things to win a robotic soccer game and A* algorithm is the one of best algorithm for path planning. This paper discusses about robot soccer simulator for robot soccer player motion for monitoring feasibility of using A* algorithm in dynamic system for generate best path for robot soccer player to avoid it’s opponent in different scenario. Keywords— soccer‚ robot‚ path planning‚ simulator
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Philosophy and Literature 253 Midterm Exam October 7 2012 “Oh‚ Jupiter‚ a robot Descartes!” Asimov’s short story “Reasons” in I‚ Robot is the fictional account of a robots creation of his own path of reasoning. Much like Descartes‚ the Robot‚ Cutie‚ is curious about the truth of his existence and plans to find the answers out for himself. Cutie is a self-aware‚ reasoning robot on a station in space in the year 2015‚ and all he knows are the things in his immediate surrounding‚ which isn’t much
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