full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Ali Kashani: A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food

Unscramble the Blue Letters

As soon as we put robots out on the street, we learned some really interesting prmlobes. Like, how should rtobos cross the road? Or how should robots interact with people with visual or mtilboiy impairments? We quickly reazield that we need to teach our robots how to communicate with people. People on the sidewalk come from every walk of life, so we needed to crtaee a new language, kind of a universal language so people and robots can udesrnatnd each other right off the bat. Because no one is going to be reading user manuals.

Open Cloze

As soon as we put robots out on the street, we learned some really interesting ________. Like, how should ______ cross the road? Or how should robots interact with people with visual or ________ impairments? We quickly ________ that we need to teach our robots how to communicate with people. People on the sidewalk come from every walk of life, so we needed to ______ a new language, kind of a universal language so people and robots can __________ each other right off the bat. Because no one is going to be reading user manuals.

Solution

  1. create
  2. robots
  3. problems
  4. realized
  5. mobility
  6. understand

Original Text

As soon as we put robots out on the street, we learned some really interesting problems. Like, how should robots cross the road? Or how should robots interact with people with visual or mobility impairments? We quickly realized that we need to teach our robots how to communicate with people. People on the sidewalk come from every walk of life, so we needed to create a new language, kind of a universal language so people and robots can understand each other right off the bat. Because no one is going to be reading user manuals.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
restaurant deliveries 2
san francisco 2

Important Words

  1. bat
  2. communicate
  3. create
  4. cross
  5. impairments
  6. interact
  7. interesting
  8. kind
  9. language
  10. learned
  11. life
  12. manuals
  13. mobility
  14. needed
  15. people
  16. problems
  17. put
  18. quickly
  19. reading
  20. realized
  21. road
  22. robots
  23. sidewalk
  24. street
  25. teach
  26. understand
  27. universal
  28. user
  29. visual
  30. walk