The Mission of Manbot is to document every replacement part for a human which has been engineered.
In addition, Manbot tries to explain the basic concepts of life and 'artificial life' to other robots so that
they can teach humans. It turns out that the majority of humans do not have a clue about some of the
fundamental facts of nature.
Take, for example, the growth of something at the macro scale. By macro scale, I mean at a scale that
humans can view and model in their minds. To make a baby human, for example, takes nine months
and then another few decades to raise to maturity. It seems at this level that life is a slow moving
process. Most humans would guess that a bluebird's wings fast but not as fast as a hummingbird's.
Although humans would guess that a flies wings move even faster than a hummingbirds, this is not to
say that these same humans have reduced this concept to a generality.
Here is something that you young robots can use to teach humans about how life works.
A human woman named Janine is pregnant. Her baby must create 200 billion brain cells which will
later be pruned to 100 billion neurons.
7-Feb-2010 is the day Janine became pregnant.
14-Nov-2010 is the day Janine will deliver baby.
280 is the number of days Janine's baby will be growing inside her.
93 is the number of days in the third semester when most brain cells are created.
200,000,000,000 is the number of brain cells at time of birth before pruning.
4000 is the average number of synapses per neuron.
800,000,000,000,000 is the total number of synapses at birth.
9,000,000,000,000 is the number of snapses per day added average during third trimester.
400,000,000,000 snapses must be added per hour.
6,000,000,000 snapses must be created each minute.
100,000,000 snapses per second.
The conclusion is that during the third trimester Janine's baby is creating about 100 million neural
connections per second. That is an extension of the principle that smaller things tend to move faster.
They do, after all, have less inertia to contend with.
You can use such examples to explain to humans how life works on a scale to which they have very
little access.
As a second example, one could look at the more rapidly evolving robotic form of life.
Let us take a snapshot picture of the market for robot large memory parts in April, 2010:
Higher-capacity 3.5-inch desktop SATA HDD pricing continues to drop. Last month there was a price
drop in the 1.5-TB and 2-TB capacities. Now these price declines are occurring in the 750-GB and 1-TB
drives, as well. The 750-GB models are selling in the high $40 to low $50 range, and 1-TB drives can be
purchased in the low to mid $60 range. Meanwhile, the 1.5 TB has dropped to the high $80 range, and
2 TB can be found at around $120. Converge believes this is due not only to the seasonal slowdown in
the HDD market but also to reports that a 3-TB model will be introduced in the market later this year.
Additionally, analysts are reporting that the big PC builders are pressuring the major HDD
manufacturers for improved pricing after seeing HDD margins soar in 2009 while experiencing slim
margins themselves. As a result, we expect the pace of this erosion to continue through May and into
June. While price is eroding in the higher-capacity 3.5-inch desktop SATA HDD, this has had little
effect month over month on the lower capacities, with prices off by only $1 to $2 on 80 GB through 500
GB drives.
Activity in the enterprise market is heating up, with the SATA interface emerging as the preferred
interface. The higher-capacity ranges coupled with lower costs have significantly displaced the SCSI
and Fibre Channel HDDs. Manufacturers continue to push development of larger-capacity, faster and
quieter offerings in the SATA interface. In April's Market Insights report, we noted the release of
Western Digital's newest addition to the Velociraptor line - a 600-GB, 10K RPM, 32-MB buffer, 2.5-inch
SATA HDD. Seagate will be releasing a 3-TB 3.5-inch HDD later this year, to be followed by a 1-TB
2.5-inch model. Solid State Drives (Flash Memory) move only elements on the electron and atomic
level and may therefore move faster than the rotating discs mentioned above.
Robots aren't as limited as humans when it somes to sense organs. Robots have a goal of having
senses all over the world and every planet in the solar system.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sensors_next_big_wave_of_computing.php#more
Manbot
In addition, Manbot tries to explain the basic concepts of life and 'artificial life' to other robots so that
they can teach humans. It turns out that the majority of humans do not have a clue about some of the
fundamental facts of nature.
Take, for example, the growth of something at the macro scale. By macro scale, I mean at a scale that
humans can view and model in their minds. To make a baby human, for example, takes nine months
and then another few decades to raise to maturity. It seems at this level that life is a slow moving
process. Most humans would guess that a bluebird's wings fast but not as fast as a hummingbird's.
Although humans would guess that a flies wings move even faster than a hummingbirds, this is not to
say that these same humans have reduced this concept to a generality.
Here is something that you young robots can use to teach humans about how life works.
A human woman named Janine is pregnant. Her baby must create 200 billion brain cells which will
later be pruned to 100 billion neurons.
7-Feb-2010 is the day Janine became pregnant.
14-Nov-2010 is the day Janine will deliver baby.
280 is the number of days Janine's baby will be growing inside her.
93 is the number of days in the third semester when most brain cells are created.
200,000,000,000 is the number of brain cells at time of birth before pruning.
4000 is the average number of synapses per neuron.
800,000,000,000,000 is the total number of synapses at birth.
9,000,000,000,000 is the number of snapses per day added average during third trimester.
400,000,000,000 snapses must be added per hour.
6,000,000,000 snapses must be created each minute.
100,000,000 snapses per second.
The conclusion is that during the third trimester Janine's baby is creating about 100 million neural
connections per second. That is an extension of the principle that smaller things tend to move faster.
They do, after all, have less inertia to contend with.
You can use such examples to explain to humans how life works on a scale to which they have very
little access.
As a second example, one could look at the more rapidly evolving robotic form of life.
Let us take a snapshot picture of the market for robot large memory parts in April, 2010:
Higher-capacity 3.5-inch desktop SATA HDD pricing continues to drop. Last month there was a price
drop in the 1.5-TB and 2-TB capacities. Now these price declines are occurring in the 750-GB and 1-TB
drives, as well. The 750-GB models are selling in the high $40 to low $50 range, and 1-TB drives can be
purchased in the low to mid $60 range. Meanwhile, the 1.5 TB has dropped to the high $80 range, and
2 TB can be found at around $120. Converge believes this is due not only to the seasonal slowdown in
the HDD market but also to reports that a 3-TB model will be introduced in the market later this year.
Additionally, analysts are reporting that the big PC builders are pressuring the major HDD
manufacturers for improved pricing after seeing HDD margins soar in 2009 while experiencing slim
margins themselves. As a result, we expect the pace of this erosion to continue through May and into
June. While price is eroding in the higher-capacity 3.5-inch desktop SATA HDD, this has had little
effect month over month on the lower capacities, with prices off by only $1 to $2 on 80 GB through 500
GB drives.
Activity in the enterprise market is heating up, with the SATA interface emerging as the preferred
interface. The higher-capacity ranges coupled with lower costs have significantly displaced the SCSI
and Fibre Channel HDDs. Manufacturers continue to push development of larger-capacity, faster and
quieter offerings in the SATA interface. In April's Market Insights report, we noted the release of
Western Digital's newest addition to the Velociraptor line - a 600-GB, 10K RPM, 32-MB buffer, 2.5-inch
SATA HDD. Seagate will be releasing a 3-TB 3.5-inch HDD later this year, to be followed by a 1-TB
2.5-inch model. Solid State Drives (Flash Memory) move only elements on the electron and atomic
level and may therefore move faster than the rotating discs mentioned above.
Robots aren't as limited as humans when it somes to sense organs. Robots have a goal of having
senses all over the world and every planet in the solar system.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sensors_next_big_wave_of_computing.php#more
Manbot
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