What if you arrived home to find it delicious hot meal waiting for you, prepared by your very own kitchen robot It might sound like science fiction. but professors at the university
of Tokyo
have
taken
the first steps toward
making that
scenario a reality. The
team recently
introduced a humanoid kichen
robot that can pour and other drinks into cups and serve the m to guests.When teating
is over, the robot can
also wash the dishes and put
them
away.
In Califormia, another interesting
kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either srore them in
cabinets (橱柜)or put them in the trash. It
also
carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that
can operate by itself.Unlike the Japanse robot,Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.
Readybot was created by engineers and designers who
who etablished a called the Readybot
Challlenge. They believe that in the future millions of
robots
will be needed in homes to perform ordinary
household tasks. Readybot is just the step
in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not
only
in
kitchens but
in other rooms of homes and in offces as well.
Clearly there are tcchnogical difficulties to to solve before robots can cook a Complete dinner, and there are diso many safety concerns (忧虑) .Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house, manipulating
hot
pans and
sharp knives. The European Commission recently furtded(资助) a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish,“ Enabling
robots to work
safely with humans is a key need for the
future developmem of
robots.”
8. Compared
with
Readybot, which of the following is true
about the Japanese robot?
A.It is more popular. |
B.It performs more jobs, |
C.It moves inore quickly. |
D.It looks more like a person. |
9. What can Readybot be used to do?
A.drive you around |
B.clean your kitchen |
C.prepare food for you |
D.work for office workers |
10. what's the meaning of Ac underlined word “manipulating ” in the last paragrsph?
A.Inventing |
B.Avoiding. |
C.Controlling. |
D.Making. |