Test Your Robo-knowledge
Human versus machine. Who will win? Take our robot trivia challenge at your own risk - you may find yourself terminated.
- 1.
Early robotic research in the 1950s and ’60s helped inspire today’s medical robots and grew out of an effort to:
- A.
Help astronauts explore the moon.
- B.
Explore how remote-controlled robots could be employed to give trauma care on the battlefield.
- C.
Make the onboard robot computer Hal in Stanley Kubrik’s 1968 movie “Space Odyssey” more realistic.
Correct Answer
B. Explore how remote-controlled robots could be employed to give trauma care on the battlefield. -
- 2.
The first remote-control surgery in the world occurred in 2001 when a doctor in New York City successfully manipulated a robot in France, which removed a woman’s:
- A.
Heart
- B.
Gallbladder
- C.
Prostate
Correct Answer
B. Gallbladder -
- 3.
According to the first of Isaac Asimov's famous Three Laws of Robotics, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Which one of the following fictional and real-life robots would be most likely to violate the code?
- A.
Rosie the Robot, the Jetsons' cartoon maid.
- B.
The da Vinci surgical robot.
- C.
The Terminator.
Correct Answer
C. The Terminator. -
- 4.
The earliest robotic arm, a precursor to today’s complex robo-surgeon’s limb, was developed to:
- A.
Perform tedious and dangerous tasks on auto assembly plants.
- B.
Perform tedious and dangerous tasks in messy homes.
- C.
Help baseball players refine their pitching form.
Correct Answer
A. Perform tedious and dangerous tasks on auto assembly plants. -
- 5.
One of the 80-plus instruments that can be connected to the da Vinci surgical robot’s arms is a morcellator, which is used to grind up and remove organs through small ports or holes in the human body. However, the robot leaves a cancerous organ whole and places it in a plastic bag before removing it because:
- A.
Doctors want to examine and test the diseased organ’s tissue.
- B.
It is important not to spatter or contaminate healthy tissue inside the body.
- C.
Both a and b.
Correct Answer
C. Both a and b. -
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