Programming a Robot

In order to gain a better understanding of robots, our group organised a workshop as part of the learning carousel. There were three workshops in total:

1. The Three Laws of Robots 
2. How to Programme a Robot 
3. Siri 

Our group was in charge of the second workshop - how to programme a robot. Following the guidance of the teacher, we organised an activity that demonstrated the steps to programming a robot:

1. Ask for a volunteer - the volunteer can only extend their arm and respond to commands with the following phrase: "What do you mean?" 
2. When told to do something, the robot cannot perform the action unless taught the action associated with the command itself (e.g. if you ask the volunteer to pick up a pen, it does not know the command, and so will need to be guided physically) 
3. This process then repeats over and over again until the robot recognises all the necessary commands

We also briefly discussed HDR (high dynamic range) and ISO.