| Brain Manipulation by Machine A video camera with slow-motion ability allows an athlete to obtain precise feedback as to what she is really doing. For example, a diver needs to have precise motions to win a diving championship. Without the ability to look at a film or video of her performance, it is much more difficult for the diver to improve her performance. You could also use a camera to take a video of yourself while performing magic tricks so that you can see any flaws in your technique and correct them. Other uses of robots to improve human performance (All machines are called robots by donbot.): Buy a Chevy Volt or other electrically-oriented vehicle and train yourself to use regenerative braking to optimize the number of miles you get per kiloWatt-Hour (kWh), or per gallon if the car is hybrid. Yesterday I drove 14.7 miles and only used "9 miles" of battery power. Such driving would extend the range of a Volt from 37 miles to over 60 miles. http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=235313&page_number=1 Get a chess-playing program which allows you to reveal the computer's opinion of who has the advantage given the current board position. Use this facility to improve your chess-playing ability. More specifically, train your mind to look at a chessboard position and judge it for white-black advantage. Get a FreeCell game which allows you to get the computer's idea of how easy the rest of the game is from the current card position. Use this facility to improve your FreeCell-playing abilities. Same thing with checkers, Monopoly, Jeopardy!, Trivial Pursuit or other such games. Medical schools are using robots for residents to practice their diagnostic skills. One example is the "patient" known as "SimMan". It is a reproduction of an average-size adult that emits realistic heart, lung, and bowel sounds and which can simulate medical problems that students can treat. Students can also use SimMan to practice procedures such as giving injections and inserting urinary catheters. A politician might use a robot to simulate the future results likely to come from the passage of a particular bill. Will entitlements bankrupt Greece and America? When will we see robot simulations being used in TV ads to convince the citizens to opt for one economic policy or another? Rather than Kudlow versus Krugman, will it be Watson v. Google? Should Apple have delayed the iPhone 4S until they had 32 nanometer technology to lower the power requirements of the CPU chip rather than proceed with the old 45 nanometer technology? Should they have simulated this or simply beta-tested it more? What other suggestions would you have to improve our human skills using robots to assist us? Now that we have such robots to assist in our human skill learning, how disadvantaged are those who decide not to use available robot assisting techniques? A version of Pac-Man where the PacMen get fatter as they eat cupcakes and thinner as they eat fruit. donbot Next |
Manipulation of Humans by Robots
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