This document summarizes a lecture on robotics and drones. It discusses the history of robots dating back to ancient times. It also covers modern industrial robots, robotic developments in the 21st century including robots that can see, hear and sense. The document outlines Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics. It discusses self-driving cars and their levels of automation. Finally, it covers unmanned aerial vehicles including military drones and delivery drones, and concludes that the robot revolution has only just begun.

1. LECTURE L23
ROBOTICS AND DRONES

2. History
The concept of robots goes
back to ancient times
Chinese legends, Greek
mythology, Indian stores
Using machines to show manlike
behaviour
Su Song's astronomical clock tower

3. History
Leonardo Da Vinci designed a
mechanical knight in 1495

4. Culture
Robots have fascinated authors and filmmakers
The modernisation of robots begins
with the industrial revolution

6. Asimov's Laws
Introduced in Isaac Asimov’s 1942 short story
"Runaround"
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human
beings except where such orders would conflict
with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as
such protection does not conflict with the First or
Second Laws.

7. Robotics in the 20th century

9. Industrial
robots

10. 80% of car
production
in automated

12. Robotics in the 21st century

13. Robotic in the 21st century
Robots that see, hear and sense
Robots that can communicate
Powerful machines with software
and internet connectivity
5G wireless standard is key to wide
adoption of mobile robots

14. Robots that learn

16. Agricultural drones

18. Are Robots taking over the world… should we be worried?

22. Engineering Social Robots: Next-Generation Human-Robot Interaction
Maja Matarić, USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center
EmTech Digital, May 23, 2016

24. Self Driving Car

25. Self Driving Car
Ideas of self driving cars are not new

26. Adjacent possible
Cars needs spacial recognition — mainly vision
Software algorithms
Connection to maps and
other data
Computing power
Self Driving Car

27. Chris Urmson:
How a driverless car sees the road
TED talk

29. Sunny California is one thing, try driving in this condition!

30. Level 0 (No automation): Human driver controls it all: steering, brakes,
throttle, power
Level 1 (Driver assistance): All functions are still controlled by the driver,
but the vehicle can assist with some functions.
Level 2 (Partial assistance): Driver assistance of steering and
acceleration/deceleration using information about the driving environment
is automated, like cruise control and lane-centering

31. Level 3 (Conditional assistance): Drivers are still necessary in level 3 cars,
but are able to completely shift "safety-critical functions" to the vehicle, under
certain traffic or environmental conditions
Level 4 (High automation): Designed to perform all safety-critical driving
functions and monitor roadway conditions for an entire trip
Level 5 (Full automation): This refers to a fully-autonomous system that
expects the vehicle's performance to equal that of a human driver, in every
driving scenario—including extreme environments like dirt roads that are
unlikely to be navigated by driverless vehicles in the near future.

32. Tesla updated their car’s
software over night with
Autopilot

33. Delivering on the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles
Sterling Anderson, Tesla
EmTech Digital, May 24, 2016

35. Unmanned aerial vehicle

36. Unmanned aerial vehicle - drones
An aircraft without a human pilot aboard
May be controlled with remote control from an operator
Fully autonomously, by onboard computers.
Unmanned airplanes come in all sizes

37. World’s First Jet-Powered, 3D Printed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Produced by
Stratasys and Aurora Flight Sciences

39. Unmanned aerial vehicle - drones
Unmanned airplanes have strong connection to warfare
In 1959, the U.S. Air Force, concerned about losing pilots over
hostile territory, began planning for the use of unmanned aircraft
The War of Attrition (1967-1970) saw the introduction of UAVs with
reconnaissance cameras into combat in the Middle East
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War Israel used drones as decoys to spur
opposing forces into wasting expensive anti-aircraft missiles

40. An MQ-9 Reaper, a hunter-killer surveillance UAV

43. Delivery drones

47. Summary
The robot revolution is just starting
Self-driving cars will have huge impact
Delivery drones will change the way we shop

48. Next
Office hours Saturday — Time TBD
Research Paper due 31.03 23:59 with final day 16.04
L24 The Future 02.04 — Open lecture, bring a friend
Lecture Exercise L24: Tell me about the Future