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Robotics Webquest

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What are three tasks robots can currently perform? Paint cars at Ford Walk in live volcanoes Drive trains in Paris
We have been using robots for...? Less than 50 years
Leonardo da Vinci drew plans for a mechanical man in...? 1495
These events spurred the development of robotics in the 1950s and 60s... Invention of transistors and integrated circuts (microchips)
The first product of robot manufacturing in 1959 was the...? Ashtray
Two characteristics that differentiate a robot from a machine are... Get information from surroundings Do something physical like move or manipulate objects
The first use of the word robot was in...? Fictional 1920s play by Karl Capek
According to Webster, a robot is.... An automatic device that performs functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human
More than half of robots...? Make automobiles
What was the first robot manufactured? Who was it created by? Where was it manufactured? What did it do? Unimate was built at General Motors by Joseph F. Engelberger to extract die casting from die casting machines and to do spot welding on auto bodies
A clear need for a robot to go where humans couldn't was demonstrated in 1986, it was the... Chernobyl accident
Robots are used in microsurgery to... Remote surgery
The name of the rover that investigated the surfaces of Mars in 1997 was the... Soujourner (first wheeled rover to explore another planet)
For commands to reach a rover on Mars from Earth it will take... 11 minutes
What happened in 1994 in Alaska? Dante II crashed as being lowered into Mt. Spur
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