A robot brain surgeon anesthetized your brain when he opens your braincase and peers insid
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A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when ______.
A.its intelligence and cost are beyond question
B.it is able to bear the rough environment
C.it is made as complex as the human brain
D.its architecture is different from that of the present ones
According to the text, what is beyond man' s ability now is to design a robot that can
A.fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery.
B.interact with human beings verbally.
C.have a little common sense.
D.respond independently to a changing world.
Which of the following is NOT true of the robot built by Srinivasan?
A.It was directed by signals converted from the electrical activity in Belle's brain
B.It converted the electrical patterns into instructions for the other robot.
C.It was six hundred miles away from where Belle was.
D.It could perform. the same function as Belle did.
What did the creator of Paro himself find about robot interaction?
A.It can adequately impact the health and well-being of the elderly positively.
B.It stimulates brain activity of patients with dementia.
C.It has little effect on lowering stress, elevating moods and decreasing depression.
D.It only positively affected the patients.
A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when ______
A.its intelligence and cost are beyond question
B.it is able to bear the rough environment
C.it is made as completes as the human brain
D.its architecture is different from that of the present ones
A.fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery
B.interact with human beings verbally
C.have a little common sense
D.respond independently to a changing world
Some day there will be a robot that takes the drudgery (苦工,单调沉闷的工作) out of housework—and even cleans windows, but how soon such a robot will emerge is anybodys guess. Mr. Joseph Engelberger, President of Unimation, Inc. , which makes industrial robots, says a workable domestic robot might take shape by the late 1980s, but Mr. Ben Skora, an amateur robot builder now working on his second creation, predicts household robots in about fifty years, and the Director of Stanford Universitys Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dr. John McCarthy, says domestic robots are anywhere from five to five hundred years away. Although robots are already widely used in industry—from welding (焊接) car parts to handling explosives—the gap between the industrial robot and a domestic one is great, according to Dr. McCarthy. Closing the gap will require an intellectual break-through. "Take the task of clearing the table and washing the dishes," he suggested. "The robots will have to be able to discriminate between rubbish and dishes that should be washed and, meanwhile, not trip over the dog or baby on the floor on its way to the dishwasher. " He said that the robot, which he defines as a general purpose physical action machine that is automatically controlled, probably will not end up looking anything like a human being. Instead the robot might have a central "brain" that controls a whole army of bodies, like a staff of servants, each assigned to a specific duty. Mr. Engelberger thinks the domestic robot is right around in corner, just waiting for an economic boost to help it over the remaining technological hurdles. He expects the household robot to be modeled after an industrial forebear (祖先). "But the person who wants a robot will have to build this world around it," Mr. Engelberger said. For example, a fellow building a house might spend twenty-five per cent more to have it "robotized". Such a "robotized" house probably would have to be free of stairs and other encumbrances (障碍物) that could trip a near-sighted robot, would provide special sockets (插座) for it to plug into, and would contain a "pantry" (餐具室) where the robots brain and tools would be stored. He added that the robot would probably have to use (by means of a sophisticated TV camera) and have a sense of touch to do housework. It could even be programmed for some superhuman tasks, such as acting as a smoke-detector that would alert a family to a fire and then fight it.
The day domestic robots come into being is______.
A.coming very soon
B.definite
C.impossible
D.uncertain
根据下列文章,请回答 41~45 题。 Controlling Robots with the Mind
Belle, our tiny monkey, was seated in her special chair inside A cha mber at our Duke University lab. Her right hand grasped a joystick (操纵杆) as she watched A horizontal series of lights on adisplay panel. She knew that if alight suddenly sho, ne and she moved the joystick left or right to correspond to its position, she would be sent adrop of fruit juice into her mouth.
Belle wore A cap glued to her head. Under it were four plastic connectors, which fed arrays of microwires - each wire finer than the finest sewing thread- into different regions of Belle's motor cortex, the brain tissue that plans movements and sends instructions. Each of the 100 microwires lay beside A single motor neuron (神经元) When aneuron produced an electrical discharge, the adjacent microwire would capture the current and send it up through asmall wiring bundle that ran from Belle's cap to A box of electronics on A table next to the booth. The box, in turn, was linked to two computers, one next door and the other half acountry a way.
After months of hard work, we were about to test the ide athat we could reliably translate the ra w electrical activity in aliving being's brain - Belle's mere thoughts - into signals that could direct the actions of arobot. We had assembled a multi jointed robot arm in this room, a way from Belle's view, which she would control for the first time. As soon as Belle's brain sensed alit spot on the panel, electronics in the box running two real-time mathematical models would rapidly analyze the tiny action potentials produced by her brain cells. Our lab computer would convert the electrical patterns into instructions that would direct the robot arm。 Six hundred miles north, in Ca mbridge, Mass, adifferent computer would produce the sa me actions in another robot arm built by Mandaya m A. Srinivasan, If we had done everything correctly, the two robot arms would beha ve as Belle's arm did, at exactly the sa me time.
Finally the moment ca me. We randomly switched on lights in front of Belle, and she immediately moved her joystick back and forth to correspond to them. Our robot arm moved similarly to Belle's real arm. So did Srinivasan's. Belle and the robots moved in synchrony (同步), like dancers choreographed (设计舞蹈动作) by the electrical impulses sparking in Belle's mind.
In the two years since that day, our labs and several others ha ve advanced neuroscience, computer science and microelectronics to create ways for rats, monkeys and eventually humans to control mechanical and electronic machines purely by"thinking through," or ima gining, the motions. Our immediate goal is to help A person who has been unable to move by A neurological (神经的) disorder or spinal cord (脊髓) injury,but whose motor cortex is spared, to operate A wheelchair or A robotic limb.
第11题:Belle would be fed some fruit juice if she
A.grasped the joystick.
B.moved the joystick to the side of the light.
C.sat quietly in A special chair.
D.watched lights on A display panel.
Controlling Robots with the Mind
Belle, our tiny monkey, was seated in her special chair inside a chamber at our Duke University lab. Her right hand grasped a joystick (操纵杆) as she watched a horizontal series of lights on a display panel. She knew that if a light suddenly shone and she moved the joystick left or right to correspond to its position, she would be sent a drop of fruit juice into her mouth.
Belle wore a cap glued to her head. Under it were four plastic connectors, which fed arrays of microwires-each wire finer than the finest sewing thread- into different regions of Belle's motor cortex (脑皮层), tile brain tissue that plans movements and sends instructions. Each of the 100 microwires lay beside a single motor neuron (神经元). When a neuron produced an electrical discharge, the adjacent microwire would capture the current and send it up through a small wiring bundle that ran from Belle's cap to a box of electronics on a table next to the booth. The box, in turn, was linked to two computers, one next door and the other half a country away.
After months of hard work, we were about to test the idea that we could reliably
translate the raw electrical activity in a living being's brain-Belle's mere thoughts-into signals that could direct the actions of a robot. We had assembled a multi-jointed robot arm in this room, away from Belle's view, which she would control for the first time. As soon as Belle's brain sensed a lit spot on the panel, electronics in the box running two real-time mathematical models would rapidly analyze the tiny action potentials produced by her brain cells. Our lab computer would convert the electrical patterns into instructions that would direct the robot arm. Six hundred miles north, in Cambridge, Mass, a different computer would produce the same actions in another robot arm built by Mandayam A. Srinivasan. If we had done everything correctly, the two robot arms would behave as Belle's arm did, at exactly the same time.
Finally the moment came. We randomly switched on lights in front of Belle, and she immediately moved her joystick back and forth to correspond to them. Our robot arm moved similarly to Belle's real arm. So did Sriniwlsan's. Belle and the robots moved in synchrony (同步), like dancers choreographed (设计舞蹈动作) by the electrical impulses sparking in Belle's mind.
In the two years since that day, our labs and several others have advanced neuroscience, computer science and microelectronics to create ways for rats, monkeys and eventually humans to control mechanical and electronic machines purely by "thinking through," or imagining, the motions. Our immediate goal is to help a person who has been unable to move by a neurological (神经的) disorder or spinal cord (脊髓) injury, but whose motor codex is spared, to operate a wheelchair or a robotic limb.
Belle would be fed some fruit juice if she
A.grasped the joystick.
B.moved the joystick to the side of the light.
C.sat quietly in a special chair.
D.watched lights on a display panel.
从供选择的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。
The use of the computer is changing the very(1)of many jobs that exist within a business. In the industrial(2), tools were developed to assist in improving production, but much work still involved(3)labor. The information(2)has brought about another change-achangefrom(3)laborto(4)labor.
Pressure on computer worker can be great. Whether operating a robot, running a computer, or programming a computer,a single error can be(5). The smallest error could misdirect an airline, disrupt delivery schedules, or cost millions of dollars.
供选择的答案:
(1) important (2) great (3) disastrous (4) physical (5) body
(6) brain (7) mental (8) revolvng (9) revolution (10) nature
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