1. Three Laws of robotics
February 22, 2016

2. Objectives: Students will research the Three Laws of Robotics.
Evaluate how the design of a robot’s body affects its behavior.
Create an algorithm to direct a human “robot” from one part of the room to another.

3. yesterday: Worksheet! Research the Three Laws of Robotics
Journal Entry

4. Laws of Robotics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJJnQybZlk

5. Isaac Asimov’s Three laws of Robotics:
A robot may not injure humanity, or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such order conflict with Law One.
A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with Laws One and Two.
FYI: Are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.
These rules appear in almost all of the robots appearing in fiction, cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature. They are referred to in many books, films, and other media.
This cover of I, Robot illustrates the story "Runaround", the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics.

6. Law zero!
A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with Laws One and Two.

7. Journal Entry: What happens when you change the design of a robot?
If you could change the body of the printer (or another device in the room) what would you change? How would that affect other things like the behavior or function of the printer, price, cost to build, or popularity?

8. Did you know?
There are limits to what robots can do because robots are limited by their bodies.
Example: It is difficult to create a robotic hand that can grasp small or delicate items – it would require many motors (simulating all the muscles in the hand) and many sensors to detect the item (simulating the neurons in the hand).

9. Did you bring a shoe that can be laced?
Get into your groups.
Make sure that someone in your group has a shoe that can be tied.
Do the following:
Try tying the shoe with your eyes closed.
Try tying the shoe with heavy gloves.
Try tying the shoe with pliers.
Try tying the shoe with a partner using the pliers.
In your group:
Discuss the experience.
How was it like a robot tying the shoes?
What made it hard?
Let’s share with the class!

10. Walk like a robot. Turn left 90 degrees. Turn right 90 degrees.
Get into your groups.
One student in the group is the ROBOT.
The group must choose a starting point and an ending point between which the ‘robot’ must navigate. Make sure the path is not direct.
The group must direct the robot from the starting point to the ending point using only 5 commands:
Turn left 90 degrees.
Turn right 90 degrees.
Take a step forward with the left foot.
Take a step forward with the right foot.
Stop.
The robot can only follow these five commands and not response to other commands.
Be careful not to walk into things!
You can use loops!
Let’s share our experience.