The document discusses the history and growth of robotics from early depictions in film in the 1920s to developments in the 2000s with GPS and wireless technologies. It outlines key events like the formulation of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in 1942 and advances in CPU power and coding. The document also examines robot types, elements, implementations in industries and applications, challenges in testing and quality control, and debates around robots' impacts on jobs and humanity. Research labs and companies advancing robotics are listed along with vocabulary terms in the field.

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4. Robotics Growth
Testing Challenges
Quality Robots: What’s the Context?

5. Robotics Growth
Testing Challenges
Quality Robots: What’s the Context?

7. TITLE: The Man-Machine
ARTIST: Kraftwerk
RELEASE DATE: May 1978
TRACKS TO DOWNLOAD: The Robots

8. Gartner Group :"The Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies"

9.  1927 the Maschinenmensch ("machine-human") gynoid
humanoid robot (also called "Parody", "Futura",
"Robotrix", or the "Maria impersonator"), the first
depiction of a robot ever to appear on film, was played by
German actress Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang's film
Metropolis.
• 1942 the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov formulated his
Three Laws of Robotics.
• 1948 Norbert Wiener formulated the principles of
cybernetics, the basis of practical robotics.
• 1961 Fully autonomous robots appear (Unimate)
• 1970’s Industrial Robots
• 1980 -90 – Increased CPU Power / Smaller, Satellites, Laser
technology, Coding advances
• 2000’s – GPS, Wireless, Advanced Materials,
Nanotechnology, Advanced Sensors, Agile
• Next…..
Karel Čapek
R.U.R.: Rossums Universal Robots (1920)
A dystopian story about things
going wrong at a factory
populated with sentient
“robots”

11. Example: Degree(s) of Freedom

14. Technovision

15. Robotics Growth
Testing Challenges
Quality Robots: What’s the Context?

16. After the Telelux, Westinghouse built several other robots—Katrina Van Televox,
Rastus Robot & Willie Jr., Willie Vocalite, succeeded by the most successful Elektro
the Moto-Man, built in 1937/38 at the Westinghouse's factory in Mansfield.
Quality
Management:
Testing
Quality Control
Quality Assurance

17. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co's first robot was Herbert Televox, built in 1927 by Roy Wensley at their East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania plant.

19. "TMap® Human Driven"

20. Robot Types
• Stationary robots (including robotic arms with a global axis of movement)
• Cartesian/Gantry robots
• Cylindrical robots
• Spherical robots
• Wheeled robots
• Legged robots
• Swimming robots
• Flying robots
• Mobile spherical robots (robotic balls)
• Swarm robots
• Others

21. Elements of a Robot
Sensors
Effectors (Pneumatics, Hydraulics, Engines)
Control Systems (the "brains")
 Pre Programmed
 Remote Control
 Supervisory
 Autonomous
ERATO grant: Japan Science and Technology Corporation

25. Robotics Growth
Testing Challenges
Quality Robots: What’s the Context?

26. Robot Implementations (Context)
• Industrial robots
• Domestic or Household robots
• Medical robots
• Service robots
• Military robots
• Entertainment robots
• Space robots
• Hobby and competition robots

27. The D’s
Dirty
Dangerous
Dull
Depressing
Demanding
Daring
Dynamic

28. A Step In Mankind's Ongoing Advance?
 Robotic Workforce
 Technological Advances
 Collective Intelligence
 Learn how to Learn
 Expendable
 Harvest Automation
 Robotic Surgery

30. LS3 Robotic Pack Mule Field Testing by US
Military

31. A Step In Mankind's Obsolescence?
 Robotic Workforce
 Technological Military Superiority
 Lack of Common Sense
 Robohackers
 “Rise of Machines”
 Robotic Revolution

32. KUKA ( Keller und Knappich Augsburg)
Agilus the world’s fastest robot – was programmed into play a match against table tennis champion Timo Boll, ranked at number 5 in the world.

33. Vocabulary
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Top Down: Build the brain first
Bottom Up Don't bother with a brain

34. AI
Approaches:
• Cybernetics and brain simulation (Neurology + Information Theory,)
• Symbolic (Cognitive, Logic Based, Symbolic Manipulation )
• Sub-symbolic (Perception, Learning Patterns)
• Statistical (Sophisticated Mathematics)
Tools:
• Logic
• Probabilistic methods
• Classifiers and statistical learning methods
• Neural networks
• Control theory
• Languages

35. Research Labs
DARPA, USA
Charité Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab
Cybernet Systems Corporation
IU Hardware Methods Group
LIRA-Lab: Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics
NASA
Robotic, CZ
Russia's Central Research and Development Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics
(CRDI RTC)
EU-IST project (Swarm Bots)
University Zurich

36. Robotics Growth
Testing Challenges
Quality Robots: What’s the Context?

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38. http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/what-bill-gates-is-buying/3926

40. Agile Testing Day in Utrecht
Netherlands, Utrecht – March 19, 2015

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