Midterm Session 7

Question 1

a discourse on art

Answer 1

technology

Question 2

Ultimate medium for advertisement placements

Answer 2

television

Question 3

Successful in his attempt to send images
through wires with the aid of a rotating metal
disk

Answer 3

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

Question 4

Made the new system of 
television by using the 
cathode ray tube in 
addition to the 
mechanical scanner 
system

Answer 4

Alan Archibald
Campbell-Swinton and
Boris Rosing

Question 5

Made the first call ever made on a cellphone

Answer 5

Martin Cooper

Question 6

The mobile phone used by Cooper weighed?

Answer 6

1.1 kg

Question 7

The first true portable, full-featured computer

Answer 7

Osborne 1

Question 8

An actuated mechanism programmable in
two or more axes with a degree of
autonomy, moving within its environment,
to perform

Answer 8

robot

Question 9

ability to perform intended
tasks based on current state and sensing
without human intervention

Answer 9

autonomy

Question 10

A robot that performs 
useful tasks for 
humans or equipment 
excluding industrial 
application.

Answer 10

service robot

Question 11

Used for a noncommercial task, usually

by laypersons.

Answer 11

personal service robot

Question 12

Used for a commercial task, usually

operated by a properly trained operator.

Answer 12

professional service robot

Question 13

an American 
inventor 
known for 
developing 
Unimate

Answer 13

George Devol

Question 14

the 
first material
handling robot 
employed in 
industrial 
production 
work

Answer 14

unimate

Question 15

was an American writer and professor

of biochemistry at Boston University and made the “Three Laws of Robotics”

Answer 15

Isaac Asimov

Question 16

State the ethical dilemma/s faced by

robotics

Answer 16

safety

emotional component