ACADEMIC PRESENTATION- ROBOTS

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this presentation about robots and
thank you for coming. Let me just start by introducing myself. My name is Raluca Nutu, student
at ETTI.

The topic of today’s presentation is robots. I’ve divided my talk in three parts. Firstly,
what I want to do is give you some background about the needs of humankind and the first
robots invented. Secondly, we will look at types of robots and why to use them. Thirdly, I will
explain the advantages and disadvantages of them.

Coming back to the first part of my presentation, which talks about the history of
robots, I would like to say that in the past, the human labor and the aid of domesticated
animals, both gave the efforts to build the earliest societies. When the machines were invented
to perform repetitive tasks, like “lifting water and grinding grain”, and mechanics and complex
mechanisms were developed, human labor became less important. As a result, more
technological advances developed slightly and widely spread. Electronics was a major
technological advance that led to the creation of the “autonomous robots” by William Grey in
1948. In 1954, George Devol invented a digital and programmable robot and called it
“Unimate”, that later on was used to move hot metal objects by General Motors in 1960.

Secondly, you will probably be thinking why should we use robots. Humans wanted a
machine to rely on, because robots never get tired and help the humans by different tasks all
the time. Will discuss the reasons more under the advantages of the robots label. There are
many types of robots, like: mobile robot, industrial robots, service robot, educational robot,
collaborative robot.

The last but not least, the advantages and disadvantages of robots. One major
advantage of robots is that they are used to do repetitive (boring) actions or jobs and also to
perform a variety of tasks. Further advantages of them are that they improve in quality,
increase in production, perform dangerous tasks that human can’t do, and they don’t get sick,
and one point of view in favor of using robots is that they can work 24/7 without complaining.

On the other hand the disadvantages are that they are very expensive and they don’t
have any guarantee. In spite of their intelligence they need to be supervised by humans and
also they are not safe all the time.
 And finally, let’s finish up today’s discussion with this interesting idea: people and
robots can go side by side in their lives in each area.

Who knows exactly how this term “human and robots” will be translated into future.
Humans and robots that complement each other – they prosper together and live together.
However, Complicated tasks are still best performed by human beings with real brainpower.

Thank you so much for your interest and attention.

If anyone has any questions, I’d be happy to open up the discussion.