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Unit 5
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Unit 5

1 What do we mean by humanoids?

2 Where can humanoids be seen today?

3 Is it important for robots to  look like human beings?

4 Would you like to have humanoid robots at home,  in the class or some other place? What for?    

5 Make sure that you know the words below:

    Decade, costly, emerge, battlefield, gesture.

6 Read the text.

Humanoid Robotics

      Like  never  before,   technology  can  bring  imagination to life. For decades we have been informed about robots that look  like  humans. We  are  promised  by  films,  fiction and television  that  humanoids  will  cook  for  us, clean  for  us, become our best friends, teach our children, and even fall in love with us. Recently a surprising number of new humanoid robots have emerged on  the  commercial   market.  The  first generations  of  humanoids  were costly  and used mostly for entertainment. In time they  will perform  a   wide  variety of tasks  at  homes,  battlefields,  nuclear  plants,  government installations,  factories  and  even  space  stations. Already humanoid  robots  can  carry  out  complex  commands given through gesture and speech.

     Humanoids  may  prove  to  be  the  ideal  robot design to interact with people. The humans have already adapted to the high  level modality of  the  monitor and  keyboard. In  future technology will adapt to us.

      Humanoid  robotics  also offers a unique research tool for understanding  the human brain and body.

1 Answer the questions:

a) Why did people start  producing robots?

b) What can robots do at battlefields, nuclear plants, space stations?

2 Comment on the last two passages of the text.



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