人与机器人未来方程式.docVIP

人与机器人的未来方程式 　　刚过去的暑假，大家有没有进电影院感受《变形金刚》超炫的视觉效果？这部电影再次将我们的目光聚集在机器人身上。从小说到电影，凡是涉及未来的主题总少不了这种机械生命体的身影。过去的作家认为它们会让人类从此衣食无忧，现在的导演则担心机器终有一天反客为主―其实像《变形金刚》这样，交个机器人朋友可能也是一个不错的未来哦！ 　　 　　听力小提示： 　　本文文字难度中等，但因涉及科技方面的内容，需要多听几遍，增进理解。旁白语速较慢，受访者则为正常或偏快语速，适用于不同水平的段落听力训练。另外，旁白语音清晰，可以挑选文中部分段落进行跟读练习，训练语音语调。 　　 　　Fiction and Reality 　　 　　A robot is a machine that performs useful actions, and is capable of making decisions about its behavior. In other words, robots are the love children of computers and powered toys. They come in all shapes and sizes, each specific to its function. Since they first came on the scene in the 1960s, real-world robots have slowly worked their way into industry, taking over more and more dirty, dull and dangerous jobs with each passing year. In 1)assembly line businesses, such as building cars, the ability of robots to perform complicated tasks over and over is a perfect fit. 　　There are three basic ways to make robots work: 　　 An 2)intelligent 3)tele-operated system has some computerized control at the robot end, but a human makes 4)virtually all of the decisions. 　　 With 5)supervisory control, the human makes key decisions about what the robot should do, and the robot has enough intelligence to perform its tasks without constant guidance. 　　 An 6)autonomous robot is virtually free of human control. 　　Scientist A: In the early going, things were simple. Form followed function, and the only challenge was to get a robot to 7)navigate, or clean up a 8)nuke setting, or to perform an industrial task. Now people actually expect robots to look like robots, and to speak like robots. I think that next-generation robots have to master that kind of speech and interaction a lot more than their personal status or the weather report, but to really interact in the way that we are right now. 　　Scientist B: In 9)robotics, a lot of us feel like we’re been cheated by Hollywood ?in that Hollywood has shown robots doing things that we don’t have any possible capabil