Technology 3 ESO – Unit 11 CONTROL AND ROBOTICS extra activities
1 – Watch the video on “What is a Robot” and answer:
- a) What three things define a robot?
- b) Why do you think that the first vacuum cleaner can’t “plan”?
- c) Why do we say that the second vacuum cleaner can “sense”?
- d) Why do we say that the second vacuum cleaner can “act independently”?
2 – Watch the video on “What is a Robot?” and answer:
- a) What means that the robot in the video is an “anthropomorphic robot”?
- b) What can the robot do thanks to its software?
- c) What is software?
- d) What is hardware?
- e) What is generally a robot?
- f) What can robots do?
3 – Watch the video on “Predictions – Robotics and artificial intelligence” and answer:
- a) What jobs can we expect robots will do in the future?
- b) How robots and artificial intelligence might affect human jobs?
