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From the Ted Talk by Rodney Brooks: Robots will invade our lives

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So one year ago, the US miartily didn't have these robots. Now they're on active duty in Afghanistan every day. And that's one of the reasons they say a robot iiovnasn is hepinpang. There's a sea chngae happening in how — where technology's going. Thanks. And over the next couple of months, we're going to be sending robots in porcotduin down producing oil wells to get that last few years of oil out of the ground. Very hostile environments, 150˚ C, 10,000 PSI. Autonomous robots going down, doing this sort of work. But rbotos like this, they're a little hard to program. How, in the future, are we going to program our robots and make them easier to use? And I want to actually use a robot here — a roobt named Chris — stand up. Yeah. Okay. Come over here. Now notice, he thinks robots have to be a bit stfif. He sort of does that. But I'm going to — crihs Anderson: I'm just British. RB: Oh. (Laughter) (Applause) I'm going to show this robot a task. It's a very complex task. Now nticoe, he nddeod there, he was giving me some indication he was understanding the flow of communication. And if I'd said something completely bizarre he would have looked askance at me, and regulated the conversation. So now I brought this up in front of him. I'd looked at his eyes, and I saw his eyes looked at this bottle top. And I'm doing this task here, and he's ceknichg up. His eyes are going back and forth up to me, to see what I'm looking at — so we've got sehard attention. And so I do this task, and he looks, and he looks to me to see what's happening next. And now I'll give him the bottle, and we'll see if he can do the task. Can you do that? (Laughter) Okay. He's pretty good. Yeah. Good, good, good. I didn't show you how to do that. Now see if you can put it back together. (Laughter) And he tikhns a robot has to be really slow. Good robot, that's good.

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So one year ago, the US ________ didn't have these robots. Now they're on active duty in Afghanistan every day. And that's one of the reasons they say a robot ________ is _________. There's a sea ______ happening in how — where technology's going. Thanks. And over the next couple of months, we're going to be sending robots in __________ down producing oil wells to get that last few years of oil out of the ground. Very hostile environments, 150˚ C, 10,000 PSI. Autonomous robots going down, doing this sort of work. But ______ like this, they're a little hard to program. How, in the future, are we going to program our robots and make them easier to use? And I want to actually use a robot here — a _____ named Chris — stand up. Yeah. Okay. Come over here. Now notice, he thinks robots have to be a bit _____. He sort of does that. But I'm going to — _____ Anderson: I'm just British. RB: Oh. (Laughter) (Applause) I'm going to show this robot a task. It's a very complex task. Now ______, he ______ there, he was giving me some indication he was understanding the flow of communication. And if I'd said something completely bizarre he would have looked askance at me, and regulated the conversation. So now I brought this up in front of him. I'd looked at his eyes, and I saw his eyes looked at this bottle top. And I'm doing this task here, and he's ________ up. His eyes are going back and forth up to me, to see what I'm looking at — so we've got ______ attention. And so I do this task, and he looks, and he looks to me to see what's happening next. And now I'll give him the bottle, and we'll see if he can do the task. Can you do that? (Laughter) Okay. He's pretty good. Yeah. Good, good, good. I didn't show you how to do that. Now see if you can put it back together. (Laughter) And he ______ a robot has to be really slow. Good robot, that's good.

Solution

  1. military
  2. happening
  3. thinks
  4. robots
  5. robot
  6. nodded
  7. notice
  8. production
  9. stiff
  10. checking
  11. invasion
  12. shared
  13. chris
  14. change

Original Text

So one year ago, the US military didn't have these robots. Now they're on active duty in Afghanistan every day. And that's one of the reasons they say a robot invasion is happening. There's a sea change happening in how — where technology's going. Thanks. And over the next couple of months, we're going to be sending robots in production down producing oil wells to get that last few years of oil out of the ground. Very hostile environments, 150˚ C, 10,000 PSI. Autonomous robots going down, doing this sort of work. But robots like this, they're a little hard to program. How, in the future, are we going to program our robots and make them easier to use? And I want to actually use a robot here — a robot named Chris — stand up. Yeah. Okay. Come over here. Now notice, he thinks robots have to be a bit stiff. He sort of does that. But I'm going to — Chris Anderson: I'm just British. RB: Oh. (Laughter) (Applause) I'm going to show this robot a task. It's a very complex task. Now notice, he nodded there, he was giving me some indication he was understanding the flow of communication. And if I'd said something completely bizarre he would have looked askance at me, and regulated the conversation. So now I brought this up in front of him. I'd looked at his eyes, and I saw his eyes looked at this bottle top. And I'm doing this task here, and he's checking up. His eyes are going back and forth up to me, to see what I'm looking at — so we've got shared attention. And so I do this task, and he looks, and he looks to me to see what's happening next. And now I'll give him the bottle, and we'll see if he can do the task. Can you do that? (Laughter) Okay. He's pretty good. Yeah. Good, good, good. I didn't show you how to do that. Now see if you can put it back together. (Laughter) And he thinks a robot has to be really slow. Good robot, that's good.

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Important Words

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