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ROBOTS ALIVE!: Answers to Viewer Challenge |
MAZES AND SQUIGGLES
- 1. (b.) Multiple robots enable SRI to win the maze contest.
- 2. In the tennis ball contest, small, agile robots are favored to do best.
LOOK, NO HANDS!
- 3. (b.) If lane markers are missing, the experimental van's system adapts to identify other features on the road.
- 4. Potential applications of the Carnegie Mellon Navlab project include navigating hazardous environments, making highways safer and alerting sleepy truck drivers.
TODDLER'S FIRST STEPS
- 5. The robot built by the University of New Hampshire is different from earlier walking robots because it is modeled on humans and it learns from past experiences.
- 6. (d.) The first thing the robot nicknamed "Toddler" learns is how not to fall over.
ALMOST HUMAN
- 7. (a.) With Cog, Rodney Brooks and his colleagues at MIT hope to build a robot with the intelligence and capabilities of a six-month-old baby.
- 8. Compared to robots like IT, Cog is a more advanced system because it learns from experiences.
ROBOFLIERS
- 9. The aerial robot must complete fly across a barrier, pick up puck and drop it at a designated site.
- 10. (d.) GPS (Global Positioning System) enables the Stanford team to win the contest.
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