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01 - What is a Robot?

 1. Robots are essentially ________. There are lots of types of robots. They move in different ways and do all kinds of jobs.
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  animals

  machines

  humans

  alive

 2. Because a robot is not alive, we have to ________ it to do things. It only does what we tell it to do

  motivate

  encourage

  kill

  program/code

 3. A robot can also be described as "an artificial agent", meaning it acts as a substitute for a person, doing things it is designed for.

  True

  False

 4. Robots are usually machines __________ by a computer program or electronic circuitry. They may be directly controlled by humans.

  eaten

  found

  controlled

  covered

 5. Most robots do a specific job, and they ______________ like humans. They can come in many forms

  do not always look

  always look

  love, adore and

  never look

 6. Many __________ use robots to do hard work quickly and without many mistakes. They do not look like people and perform tasks. These are 'industrial' robots
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  grandparents

  musical instruments

  internal organs

  factories

 7. A few robots do surgery in places inside the body where a human hand is too big.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 8. Planet ______ are robots for exploring distant planets.

  rovers

  midgets

  boxes

  dogs

 9. The quadrupedal military robot Cheetah, an evolution of BigDog (pictured), was clocked as the world's fastest legged robot in 2012.
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  TRUE

  FALSE

 10. An ________, or robot designed to resemble a human, can appear comforting to some people and disturbing to others
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  humanoid

  humanbot

  bitcoinoid

  android


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