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A

During July 2003, the Museum of Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts exhibited

what Honda calls 'the world's most advanced humanoid robot', AS1MO (the Advanced

Step in Innovative Mobility). Honda's brainchild is on tour in North America and

delighting audiences wherever it goes. After 17 years in the making, ASIMO

stands at four feet tall, weighs around 115 pounds and looks like a child in an

astronaut's suit. Though it is difficult to see ASIMO's face at a distance, on

closer inspection it has a smile and two large eyes' that conceal cameras. The

robot cannot work autonomously - its actions are 'remote controlled' by

scientists through the computer in its backpack. Yet watching ASMIO perform at a

show in Massachusetts it seemed uncannily human. The audience cheered as ASIMO

walked forwards and backwards, side to side and up and downstairs. After the

show, a number of people told me that they would like robots to play more of a

role in daily life - one even said that the robot would be like 'another

person'.

B

While the Japanese have made huge strides in solving some of the engineering

problems of human kinetics (n.动力学) and bipedal (adj. 两足动物的)movements, for the

past 10 years scientists at MIT's former Artificial Intelligence (Al) lab

(recently renamed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,

CSAIL) have been making robots that can behave like humans and interact with

humans. One of MITs robots, Kismet, is an anthropomorphic (adj.拟人的) head and has

two eyes (complete with eyelids), ears, a mouth, and eyebrows. It has several

facial expressions, including happy, sad, frightened and disgusted. Human

interlocutors are able to read some of the robot's facial expressions, and often

change their behavior towards the machine as a result - for example, playing

with it when it appears ‘sad’. Kismet is now in MIT’s museum, but the ideas

developed here continue to be explored in new robots.

C

Cog (short for Cognition) is another pioneering project from MIT’s former AI

lab. Cog has a head, eyes, two arms, hands and a torso (n.躯干) - and its

proportions were originally measured from the body of a researcher in the lab.

The work on Cog has been used to test theories of embodiment and developmental

robotics, particularly getting a robot to develop intelligence by responding to

its environment via sensors, and to learn through these types of

interactions.

D

MIT is getting furthest down the road to creating human-like and interactive

robots. Some scientists argue that ASIMO is a great engineering feat but not an

intelligent machine - because it is unable to interact autonomously with

unpredictabilities in its environment in meaningful ways, and learn from

experience. Robots like Cog and Kismet and new robots at MIT’s CSAIL and media

lab, however, are beginning to do this.

E

These are exciting developments. Creating a machine that can walk, make

gestures and learn from its environment is an amazing achievement. And watch

this space: these achievements are likely rapidly to be improved upon. Humanoid

robots could have a plethora of uses in society, helping to free people from

everyday tasks. In japan, for example, there is an aim to create robots that can

do the tasks similar to an average human, and also act in more sophisticated

situations as firefighters, astronauts or medical assistants to the elderly in

the workplace and in homes – partly in order to counterbalance the effects of an

ageing population.

F

Such robots say much about the way in which we view humanity, and they bring

out the best and worst of us. On one hand, these developments express human

creativity - our ability to invent, experiment, and to extend our control over

the world. On the other hand, the aim to create a robot like a human being is

spurred on by dehumanized ideas - by the sense that human companionship can be

substituted by machines; that humans lose their humanity when they interact with

technology; or that we are little more than surface and ritual behaviors, that

can be simulated with metal and electrical circuits.

Questions 1-6

Reading passage 1 has six paragraphs, A-F.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet.

NB you may use any letter more than once

1 different ways of using robots

2 a robot whose body has the same proportion as that of an adult

3 the fact that human can be copied and replaced by robots

4 a comparison between ASIMO from Honda and other robots

5 the pros and cons of creating robots

6 a robot that has eyebrows

Questions 7-13

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage 1, using

NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 7-13 on your answer sheet.

In 2003, Massachusetts displayed a robot named ASIMO which was invented by

Honda, after a period of 7 in the making. The operating information is stored in

the computer in its 8 so that scientists can control ASIMO's movement. While

Japan is making great progress, MIT is developing robots that are human-like and

can 9 humans. What is special about Kismet is that it has different 10 which can

be read by human interlocutors. 11 is another robot from MIT, whose body's

proportion is the same as an adult. By responding to the surroundings through 12

,it could develop its 13 .

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