the humble servant

[Fulvio Romano]

Okay, did you instigate me? Now you get a skewer on robotics to straighten the hair of your arms!
I will not be at the height of the "real" history and travels of "top and under the waves", but I will endeavour to borrow the quality level in a healthy competition :smile:

I will try not to enter technicalisms if not strictly required, but please ask questions (not too difficult!) to help me deal with the different topics.

My passion for robotics began as a child. In 1990 at eight years I asked my father, "Do you buy me a robot?" My father took me to a beautiful store and pointed out the various transformers, mazinga, etc. I answered "dad, these are toys... I would like a robot...".
I went home and saw an old olivetti needle printer on my desk and I had an idea. two engines and a cartridge, the electronics already there, the software also...mmmhh.. .

After a couple of weeks on my desk, there was a very loose arm made of nailed wood. the former cartridge motor moved the arm to the right and left, while the former roller engine opened and closed the arm. the needles of the head opened and closed the clamp. In the meantime I had "disassembled" the printer drivers by writing a basic software that basically tied the keyboard darts to "a character forwards", "back of a character", "leaf forward", "back of a character".
I mean, I could move the "mechanical" arm with computer keys.

Let's say, a technological result superior to the well-known tin paper piston, but I managed to remote my commands.

Why did I tell this? not for self-incense, I should be ashamed, since this is the event that made me a disabled social tongue. I'll tell you why I'll explain it to the next post.

 

[maxopus]

I think it has sociological implications
Could be an excellent vent valve for anyone with fuhrer handles.
you have a servant who obeys commands without necessarily overwhelming or offending the dignity of your fellows.
that the pacifiers like me endowed with sound curiosity have the desire to know

 

[19marco77]

I mean, I could move the "mechanical" arm with computer keys.

and I felt cool for making a boat inboard ride-by-wire with motors of track cars and scrap material of my father's works for the hull......... .

I go five minutes to depress myself in the corner... :biggrin:

 

[gerod]

frankenstein junior and humble servant igor!
Only you used mechanical parts!

 

[19marco77]

frankenstein junior and humble servant igor!
Only you used mechanical parts!

from a son of builder of calandre and industrial presses you could not expect something super technological.. :tongue:
beyond all the ball immane was to follow it because I had a short thread ahahaha

 

[PierArg]

Okay, did you instigate me? Now you get a skewer on robotics to straighten the hair of your arms!
I will not be at the height of the "real" history and travels of "top and under the waves", but I will endeavour to borrow the quality level in a healthy competition :smile:

I will try not to enter technicalisms if not strictly required, but please ask questions (not too difficult!) to help me deal with the different topics.

My passion for robotics began as a child. In 1990 at eight years I asked my father, "Do you buy me a robot?" My father took me to a beautiful store and pointed out the various transformers, mazinga, etc. I answered "dad, these are toys... I would like a robot...".
I went home and saw an old olivetti needle printer on my desk and I had an idea. two engines and a cartridge, the electronics already there, the software also...mmmhh.. .

After a couple of weeks on my desk, there was a very loose arm made of nailed wood. the former cartridge motor moved the arm to the right and left, while the former roller engine opened and closed the arm. the needles of the head opened and closed the clamp. In the meantime I had "disassembled" the printer drivers by writing a basic software that basically tied the keyboard darts to "a character forwards", "back of a character", "leaf forward", "back of a character".
I mean, I could move the "mechanical" arm with computer keys.

Let's say, a technological result superior to the well-known tin paper piston, but I managed to remote my commands.

Why did I tell this? not for self-incense, I should be ashamed, since this is the event that made me a disabled social tongue. I'll tell you why I'll explain it to the next post.

! !!!

I was eight years old the best I could do was disassemble the remote controlled machines and change the electric scooters to "truck them"

Of course, in the end, I always had some pieces.

 

[Fulvio Romano]

Since ancient times man has had the desire to give someone else heavy work. and if this desire finds itself in an eight-year-old child, it means that it is innate in the human being. the previous post I needed to prove this. but we continue.

the Roman god volcano, and the Greek hephaestus, god of fire and destroyer, had a forge. in this forge, according to mythology, they worked mechanical servants with a human aspect.

Golem, is an imaginary figure of Jewish mythology. According to legend some magicians can make a golem kneading clay and instilling his life. golem is a strong and obedient giant that can be used for heavy work. even to do so in Hebrew "golem" also means "robot".

mary shelley in a famous novel, hypotheses the possibility of bringing human beings back to life and using them as slaves. a doctor, Dr. victor frankenstein tries the experiment, with the results we all know.

in the saga of stellar wars there is the well-known c1p8 that acts as an all-round servant.

I stop here, because it's not worth getting to the movies of the other one yesterday. the important thing is to understand that the desire to create a machine that obeys the orders given by the human master is inherent in each of us.

 

[Tequila]

I press that I was not me but my two older brothers (one electronic expert and the other computer expert). when in the distance 82/83 (I was 13 years old) my older brother who just finished the two years of high school, with the money earned in the summer jobs he had bought his first computer, the sinclair zx spectrum 48k, from them to short (in the meantime he had enrolled in the school of computer science to finish the triennium) together with the other brother who in the meantime studied electronics they would serve a small circuit on a base thousand-fores

some time ago the desire to make "paciughi" on the pc, had come to mind to take me this toy, which although simplified and with reach of a few grams was however cheap, now costs even less. then for problems at the pc of ram, video card, etc. (of which I told the deeds here on the forum) I left, but who knows that your story does not awaken in me (and in others) the desire to try again.
http://www.ebay.it/itm/interfaccia-...?pt=automazione_domestica&hash=item3a7426bf09

 

[19marco77]

! !!!

Of course, in the end, I always had some pieces.

removal of unnecessary masses....light is fast... They also do it in f1.. Hi.

 

[Tequila]

the important thing is to understand that the desire to create a machine that obeys the orders given by the human master is inherent in each of us.

the other day you mentioned one of the 3 laws of robotics, so I assume you already read the books of flounces I, robots (of which they made the homonymous film a few years ago)

 

[flaviobrio88]

I was 8 years old on karts

 

[Fulvio Romano]

What does "robot" mean?
is one of the few words of technology that, contrary to what is commonly believed, does not come from English.

the term comes from a Czech theatrical work, “the universal robots of rossum”, by karel čapek*. in Czech the term “robota” means “ servile work” or “heavy work” or “forced work”. in this work for the first time are defined “robot” of beings dedicated precisely to these types of work.
in many Slavic languages the term “work” has affinity with the term “robot”. in Polish “work” is said “robota”, while “robotnik” means “worker”.

So once in a while, Anglophone supremacy is totally absent. but let’s see what it is about r.u.r. (redmove univerzální robots: “the universal robots of rossum”)

the protagonist of the work, the old rossum, discovered a chemical whose behavior was entirely equal to that of the living substance. “For example, he could get a jellyfish with the brain of socrates or a 50-metre-long worm. but because he had not even a little spirit, he bowed to the head that he would make a normal vertebrate even man. ”

He created a man, who lived for three days. but at that point the grandson of the old rossum, that is the engineer rossum realized that it was not the case of wasting to copy the human anatomy, too complicated, a good engineer has the task of simplifying, removing the superfluous.
then the engineer rossum decided to eliminate from man everything that was not immediately useful to work. “I suspect, he eliminated man and made the robot”

(*)
a curiosity. “karel” is also the name of a programming language for robots born for teaching and aimed at beginners. created in 1981 by richard e. Skas was used in his courses at the University of Stanford.
“karel” is also the name of another programming language that has nothing to do with that of skates. is the programming language of industrial robots fanuc, and is borrowed directly from the pascal.

 

[Tequila]

from what little I know about robots (a little bit) you could safely deduce that any machine tool (tornium, cnc cut to name a couple) are also robots as they do a job "in our place" through commands given by cnc program.

 

[Fulvio Romano]

from what little I know about robots (a little bit) you could safely deduce that any machine tool (tornium, cnc cut to name a couple) are also robots as they do a job "in our place" through commands given by cnc program.

It's not like that. Give me time. even the "robotized" change of certain automibiles, is quite acknowledged as a term.

 

[Tequila]

It's not like that. Give me time. even the "robotized" change of certain automibiles, is quite acknowledged as a term.

Okay, take the time you need

 

[Fulvio Romano]

but what do you mean today with the word “robot”?
in the common jargon everything is robot. mazinga is a robot, the anthropomorphic cars are robots, even the kitchen robot has the right of this appellation.

There are several definitions of robots, no strict, no valid all over the world. Yet it is very important to be able to identify the concept of “robot” because one of the factors to calculate the degree of technology of a given country is precisely the number of robots installed.
For example, in the past, in Japan any machine was considered robot, hence the common imagination of the japan as a country full of robots.
Japan has a history strongly linked to automation. The Japanese, when they decide to automate a process, have a lot to automate all aspects of it, often changing the design of the pieces with the sole purpose of obtaining a more powerful automation. This is an aspect that in Europe is discovering only recently. Still today it is typical to find super automated processes, with in the center an operation to do manually, which loses robustness throughout the chain.
However, historically, the concept of “robots” of the Japanese has virtually made the figures rise.

one of the most accredited definitions of robots (industrial) is “a multifunctional and reprogramming mechanical structure designed to move materials, parts, tools or specialized devices according to variable movements programmed for the execution of a variety of different tasks” [RIA, 1980]. This means that a lathe is not a robot, because it cannot have a variety of different tasks, the kitchen robot is not a multifunctional structure and is not programmable, etc. etc.

in general it tends to consider “industrial robots” a robot like that in figure. This is an anthropomorphic robot, later we will explain why. but there are also other types of industrial robots.

the “robots” with arms and legs are more correctly called “androids”, as the honda’s abyss, and are part of the cyborg family, that is “organisms” (in the broad sense of the term) cybernetics.

There are other cyborg structures that are called “exoskeletals”. we say, from terminator (fining), to the motorized arms for the mutilated (real) passing through structures of potenziamento like the lifters of sacks in figure.

 

[Fulvio Romano]

robotics is commonly referred to as “smart connection between perception and action”.

robotics is a branch of automation that does not apply only to robots as defined by the ria, but also to many other objects. all that changes your behavior according to the “sensations” you try, is treated by robotics.

another definition of robotics is “a science that studies the behaviors of intelligent beings, tries to develop methodologies that allow a machine, equipped with appropriate devices to perceive the surrounding environment and interact with it as sensors and actuators, to perform specific tasks. ”

Okay, enough with the definitions, let's see some story.

we have seen how since ancient man had the dream of replicating himself. at first these automatic machines had no functional poisoning, but they were only artistic-technological achievements. in the image for example you see a doll built in the sixteenth century. like a music box, giving the rope, this doll was able to write a text in calligraphy on a sheet. is not a robot, it is not reprogramable (if not by replacing the chiodata cylinder), but it is a jewel of mechanics.

later, however, man began to have serious need for functionality. machines must start to give a serious hand, and not be technological jewels, as complex as useless.
we can give an indicative date for the birth of the first industrial robots proper, around 1980. at that time the mechanical structures were similar to those in figure, and the controls were thermoion valve stoves.
Incidentally, that orange robot is one of the first automatic machines produced by the “asea”, company that subsequently merged with the “brown boveri” giving rise to the “abb”

was born the “industrial robot”

it took less than a decade to have robotics subdivided its first functional subdivision. from industrial robotics manufacturing (in photo a robotic welding) distinguished intervention robotics. the two classic applications of these robots are the rover for lunar exploration (in photo, mars) and the robots “artificieri”. in both cases the robot takes a good slice of risk, removing it to the man.

Today industrial robotics is to be considered a mature science, that is, whose development curve has reached its second knee. instead are still in more or less advanced stages of development the following branches:

medical applications
the world of medicine is permeated with automation, and robotics is very widespread, not only in surgery and microsurgery, but also in diagnostic applications.
As an example, in 2006, a thesis of an aptic device for endoscopes was made at the University of Napoli. for deep endoscopes is high the risk of perforations or lacerations, because the doctor has difficulty to realize the actual effort that the endoscope makes on the tissues. thesis was the objective of having a mathematical model for example of the stomach, which according to the position of the endoscope can calculate the different tensions on the tissues, returning to the doctor a tactile sensation rebuilt much more precise.

personal robotics
the main applications are to be sought in geriatrics or as support for the disabled. Currently this wire is braked exclusively by costs.

advanced robotics
advanced robotics covers all the “stop”. from humanoid robotics to robotic insects, swarms, hierarchical control structures, to toys.
for those who thought the toys were a marginal strand, took a look at aibo e pleo.

These "games" have been purchased by major universities in the world and have been developed worthy firmware of the darp.

 

[Exatem]

...pleo.

These "games" have been purchased by major universities in the world and have been developed worthy firmware of the darp.

they were also purchased by recombined parents (read me, given the cost), for the fun (of a few days) of the children.
Now pleo lies in his box, with his silicone skin a little 'consumption, forgotten by everyone except by me (which I paid it). .

go forward, very interesting your article. :finger:

 

[Fulvio Romano]

they were also purchased by recombined parents (read me, given the cost), for the fun (of a few days) of the children.
Now pleo lies in his box, with his silicone skin a little 'consumption, forgotten by everyone except by me (which I paid it). .

go forward, very interesting your article. :finger:

If I had a son, just to justify the purchase in my wife's eyes. .
Unfortunately the child is still small to be used as credible motivation. . .

Thank you for your appreciation. I'll move on as soon as possible.

 

[Roxkill]

! !!!

I was eight years old the best I could do was disassemble the remote controlled machines and change the electric scooters to "truck them"

Of course, in the end, I always had some pieces.

I at 8 years in free time (25 hours per day) not having my games to disassemble, I was looking for free to whip from my parents, because I disassembled everything electronically, at 12 years I started to work to recompose the play-stations of friends who in good faith asked me to "push them".

ps:
when the ps2, I needed a place in the bank!!!! :biggrin:

Bye.