Monday, 8 May 2017

Top 10 Facts about Gold

The word "gold" comes from the Old English word "geolu," meaning yellow.

Aurophobia is the fear of gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au and atomic number 79.

Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.

The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg (551 lb).

In its purest form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.

Gold is edible.

Around 161,000 tons of gold have been mined by humans.

Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element.

Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.

Saturday, 6 May 2017

Top 10 Facts about Robots

Who made the first robot in the world?
The first digital and programmable robot was invented by George Devol in 1954 and was named the Unimate.

Where was the term robotics first used?
It was the brainchild of a brilliant Czech playwright, novelist and journalist named Karel Čapek (1880-1938) who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots. Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.”

How robots have changed?
Over the years, robots have changed from being stationary and simply performing one specific task to being multi-tasking, mobile machines. Understand how far robotic technology has come since 1770 with information from an electrical and computer engineering professor in this free video on robots.

Who discovered the robot?
The term robot was first used in the 1920's in Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R, long before any metal mechanizations were invented. There was no discovery of robots.

When did the first robot appear?
1495- Designs for a humanoid robot

What is Robotica?
Robotica is a robot combat show (similar to the early seasons of Robot Wars) produced for the American television cable channel TLC, a subsidiary of the Discovery Channel.

How was the word robot coined?
But it's really a new word to the English language. It was the brainchild of a wonderful Czech playwright, novelist and journalist named Karel Capek. He lived from 1880 to 1938. And he introduced it in 1920 in his hit play "RUR," or "Rossum's Universal Robots."

What are the different types of robots?
There are six main types of industrial robots: cartesian, SCARA, cylindrical, delta, polar and vertically articulated.

What is an autonomous robot?
Autonomous robots are intelligent machines capable of performing tasks in the world by themselves, without explicit human control. Examples range from autonomous helicopters to Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner.

What is a social robot?
A social robot is an AI (artificial intelligence) system, such as an android, that is designed to interact with humans and possibly also with other robots.