Disasters like earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes happen almost everyday. It takes help from first responders to get those in the disaster area to safety. But this puts the lives of who perform rescue missions at risk as well. In the November 2014 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, Davey Alba’s article, “A Robot for Any Disaster,” is unsuccessful in convincing the readers of this idea through the limited use of pathos and redundant use of logos.
In the beginning of the article he immediately starts off by telling the readers what the capabilities of the robot are: “In one clip the robot walks on a treadmill… An engineer slips a 2x4 under its foot simulating an obstacle... and the robot ably steps over it. Cut to the robot standing on
1. Robots don’t have the human ability to make quick decisions in response to changing or new conditions. They can only wait for time-delayed instructions from Earth. They can only handle existing problems but can’t solve problems they meet for the first time. Human are more mobile than current robot explorers. (Mann 1)
Singer describes Iraq operations as they were being performed in 2008 with the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. “The Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD, teams were tasked with defeating this threat, roving about the battlefield to find and defuse the IEDs before they could explode and kill.” 3 Robots such as Packbot and Talon were used to disarm IEDs which save lives of Soldiers and civilians. The proliferation of technology in the battlefield can be seen in today’s combat environment on the ground, sea and air and will continue to grow. He states that “man’s monopoly of warfare is being broken” because digital weapons such as Packbot, Talon, SWORDS, Predator, Global Hawk and many others are a “sign” that “we are entering the era of robots of war.” 4 He supports his theory of the proliferation of technology in weapons by looking at industry growth by providing quantifiable data of rapid growth in industry to meet demands. As he states “in 1999, there were nine companies with federal contracts in homeland security. By 2003, there were 3,512. In 2006, there were 33,890.” 5 Mr. Singer then provides a history of robots, trends, and what we can expect in the future. The book also provides a glimpse of what the author believes can be expected on future battlefields and changes that he thinks U.S. policy makers and military leaders need to address. Some of the changes that can be affected concern law of war, robots role in war, level of robot authority to fight wars and robot
Pathos - This uses a strange way of pathos by focusing on the children it gives a strong use of emotion for those who have children or are planning to have some making them reconsider when being reckless when driving.
Disaster relief operations are complex systems having more to them than just a response mechanism. They require a significant amount of pre-planning.
Automatons are able to explore areas that humans cannot safely ignore like rubble and extract survivors without the risk of landslides. An example is the SALTO robot, which can collect data from nuclear power plant areas. “Ideally, someday a SALTO-like robot will carry small sensors capable of detecting people trapped beneath piles of debris.” Its size and agility make it an ideal scout during a search and rescue effort after an earthquake or building collapse as it won’t disturb the rubble. Once it senses a buried person, a follow-up team of human rescuers will be able to retrieve the victim. It shows how robots can be used to save lives so people don’t have to risk their lives and risk death. When opponents state that the robots could take over they don’t realize that these robots are not self sufficient enough to take over, so robots and humans will still be able to save lives
Ethos or “classical” as it is also sometimes referred to as and pathos or “romantic” as it is also sometimes referred to as. Ethos and pathos are considered prime examples of the way contrast was used to bring out the hidden meaning behind the musical piece, art, and literature. Ethos contains the characteristics of rational, balance, clarity, and restraint. Pathos contains the characteristics of emotion, motion, passion, and instinct.
To spread the first spring coat over my conscience, I stood there for an hour watching it dry. It loses it's glistening sheen and then assumes the final matte shade. I cannot see the colour! The window cleaners won't come till July, Even though the glass is smeared with mud, Caked over with fifteen years worth of dust.
Team 2470 may not be the most organized team: the robot’s main components may go on in the last hours, tape drawers hold everything from pliers to saws, and metric-sized bolts may cause everlasting annoyance in their perennial placement on the robot. Still, this team has the right combination of quirks and science to ignite the fire of inspiration in its students and mentors. Team 2470’s fight to create and keep robotics as a sport for everyone has lasted through the years. They have not weathered the years completely alone, as they have grown a large community of support. Traversing outside of their cozy robotics room, this team has gone out to the community to shine. While this team cannot boast an assembly-line process, they can boast their inspiring influence.
Aristotle believed that all writing is persuasive and the techniques used to get the point across fall into three different categories Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Advertisements are constructed to appeal to a target audience, who can relate or are moved from the advertisements point. Reebok’s advertisement in Men’s Health magazine October 2015 edition is a prime example of Aristotle’s beliefs. Reebok designed the advertisement appealing to middle age male viewers; who dream of being a famous professional athlete, by using a professional athlete, persuasive color appeal and a cliché of logos.
Robots are machines usually used to accomplish things too boring or dangerous for humans. Many robots are being made in the world today. The Valkyrie, Ian the Invincible, and the Alpha Dog are some examples. These are all very complex robots, but a Redbot is a robot that can be easily coded to do simple tasks. For the past two months, the Redbot Line Fisher was being created and adapted so that it will meet a service’s specific needs, improve life, and implicate social, economic, or political changes.
Robots have been remarkably helpful from doing things like swimming underwater, picking up trash, entertaining, and feeding animals and people. Robots have to be programmed to do a task or many tasks at once and are made to do tasks that are repetitive or are considered for humans to do. The task was to provide a service a robot could execute for a certain population, then showing as a prototype. As a result, the group’s chosen service was to make our robot or fantastic feeder feed the cats and dogs in the shelters of the SPCA. Therefore, fantastic feeder will help the SPCA by preforming service, improving quality of life, and will help social, economic, and political implications of the function.
Five years ago, when disaster struck in the Gulf, these robots, lacking high-flow pumps, couldn’t do that. On April 20, 2010, about 50 miles off Louisiana, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and triggered the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The blowout preventer, a key safety device that sits atop a well and is designed to seal it in an emergency, failed to activate. For 87 days, until BP’s Macondo well was capped, more than 100 million gallons of oil gushed into the
What image comes to mind when one hears the words “Killer Robot”? If one visualises the laser-wielding android in Terminator 2 which threatens to overpower its defenceless human adversaries, one would not be too far from the truth[1]. Today, advanced robots capable of engaging a human target autonomously are no longer confined to fiction but are instead rapidly becoming a reality.
Abstract: Nowadays, using robots instead of humans in risk operations is an interesting point in the field of robotics. In
If you think robots are the kind of thing you hear about in science-fiction movies, think again. Right now, all over the world, robots are performing thousands of tasks. They are probing our solar system for signs of life, building cars at the General Motors plants, assembling Oreo cookies for Nabisco and defusing bombs for the SWAT team. As they grow tougher, more mobile, and more intelligent, today’s robots are doing more and more of the things that humans can’t or don’t want to do and in many cases taking away the need for human labor.