How do robots impact society?
How will you respond?
Discover
Create
Imagine
Perform
History
Dance
Speaking/Listening
DT/Engineering
Games/PE
Computing/DT/Engineering
Geography
New Media
Writing
New Media
PD/RS/Citizenship
Engineering
Computing
Movie
Digital Game
Movie
Digital Game
Social Media
Social Media
Maths
❓ How will you present your discoveries?
- Copy'n'paste will not do!
- If you make a slideshow presentation, be prepared to present it to your form! ❓
Computing
Music
Music
Maths
Science
Science
Games/PE
If one robot can build another robot in an hour, how long until robots outnumber humans on the Earth? What impact would this have?
RS
PD/Citizenship
What rules would make a robot-human society function peaceful? Productive? Effective?
What about a robot-only society?
If robots developed a religion, then what would it look like? What would they believe? Could they believe?
What jobs in society could robots perform? What jobs should they perform? What jobs should humans keep? Why? How could this be enforced?
What could robots discover about our world that humans could not? Design a robot to meet your challenges. Why would a robot be better than a robot for this task?
Choose a job you hate doing. Design a robot to do this task - better, faster, or easier.
- what inputs would it need? What would it need to sense?
- what outputs would it need? What would it need to do?
- what decisions would it need to make?
Languages
Can robots be evil? Present a balanced or persuasive argument.
Pick your chosen sport(s). Design a robot/team of robots to outperform a human team.
Would you prefer to be a robot in a human world, or a human in a robot world? Present a balanced or persuasive argument.
How would the rules of various games and sports have to change to allow robots to compete fairly? Against human teams, robot teams or mixed teams?
How would you program a robot to make the following choices:
- whether to cross a road
- whether to save a life
- whether to assist a human (whatever they are doing)
Create flowchart or code in your chosen language
What language would robots speak to each other? What ideas would they need to convey? What nouns? What verbs?
What languages should robots speak to humans? Owners? Developers? What ideas would they need to convey? What figurative or idiomatic language would they need? Could they use it effectively?
Writing
Quote from my English Literature teacher: "When a robot writes poetry, I'll jump off a cliff."
Could a robot (software or hardware) write the following:
- a report
- a recipe
- a narrative
- a research paper
- a song
- a poem
Why? Why not? What is the difference? Should they? What impact would they have?
How long has my English teacher got?
New Media
Digital Games
Social Media
Movies
Think of your favourite app or game. What bot would be ideal for it? How would it work? Create a sample dialogue.
What games would robots play? Why? What are the rules?
What movies would robots watch? Make? What would they be like?
As robot numbers increase, what impact does this have on our environment? What impact have Bitcoin miners had?
Reading
How would your favourite novel change if a robot was the protagonist? The antagonist? If the setting was a robot-dominated society? Rewrite a section of the novel.
Art
What would robot-created art look like?
How would it be created?
What message would it convey?
Create a demonstration piece.
Sculpture?
Digital Art?
Fine Art?
Mixed Media?
Photography
❓ How will you present your ideas?
- scribbled scraps will not do
- if you prepare a slideshow presentation, be prepared to present it to your form! ❓
P.S. If you have an interesting idea that isn't on this Coggle, start it!
In what way are robots limited by Maths? What implications does this have?
Quote from my English Literature teacher:
"When a robot writes poetry, I'll jump off a cliff."
Create a robot (hardware and/or software) which can compose the following:
- a report
- a recipe
- a narrative
- a research paper
- a song
- a poem
How long has my English teacher got?
Create a robot (hardware and/or software) which can compose music. It needs to compose it itself (not help a human composer), but the results need not be pleasant!
Art
Create a robot (hardware and/or software) which can create one of the following types of artwork. It needs to create it itself (not help a human artist), but the results need not be aesthetically pleasing!
- fine art
- sculpture
- mixed media
- photography
- digital art
Create a robot (hardware and/or software) to perform a simple task. Or a complex one. What makes it a robot, and not just a machine?
Create an AI bot in Scratch that will chase a player character. How can it be make harder or easier to avoid?
Create an artwork, in the medium of your choice, which explores the impact of robots on our society. Or the future of it.
Create a robot that can perform an aspect of your chosen game, e.g. dribble a ball, return a shuttlecock
❓ What you create with? How will its function affect its form? ❓
DT
How are robots built? What materials are used and why? Are all robots built the same? How does their function affect their form?
Where are robots used in industry? Why? What is the strangest-looking robot you can find? How does it work? Why has its creator made it look as it does?
What would not be possible without robots? What could be possible?
How would our infrastructure have to change to support a robot-based society?
What was the first robot built? Create a timeline of robot technology.
What was the Mechanical Turk?
Given how robot technology has changed over the years, what will robots be like in the future if trends stay the same?
Which countries in the world use robots? The most? Which ones do not? Are there any reasons why this is so?
Are there any parts of the world better suited to robot inhabitation? More hostile? Why, and how could we support robot technologies in the more hostile environments?
Is there a rich/poor division for robot use around the world?
Do robots from different cultures look different? Why might this be so?
What is "hardware/software" equivalence?
What does this mean for robots?
Can robots think? Can they feel? Do they need to? Could they need to?
Investigate weak and strong AI.
Who was ELIZA?
Could you have a robot doctor? Coach? Priest?
Do these things already exist? Why/why not?
At what point could destroying a robot be considered murder? What are "Robot Rights", and how do they interact with "Human Rights"?
Investigate "The Game of Life". Or any cellular automata, for that matter...
How does Maths impact on the robot way of life? Drone swarms for example...
How are robots used to further human knowledge in extreme environments? LIke where? What has been discovered because of robots?
What are Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"? Are these realistic? Necessary? Can you see any problems with these, or any situation they could not cover?
Can robots be considered "alive"? Why/why not? What would need to change in the future for them to qualify, and what consequences could this have?
What are "bots"? How do they work? What are they used for? How are they different to "Intelligent Agents"?
How are robots portrayed in Movies? As protagonists? Antagonists? Both or neither?
How does the movie's time of release affect its view of robots? E.g. do films in times of war portray robots more aggressively?
How does a movie's director, cultural origin, etc. affect how it portrays robots?
Create a timeline of classic robot films. Are they all portrayed the same way?
What was the first "robot film"? Write a review.
What is the best robot film? Write a review.
Which film genre do robots typically appear in? What effect does this have on society? Are there similar themes they appear alongside? Why?
What are "bots"? How do they work? What are they used for? How are they different to "Intelligent Agents"?
How are robots used and portrayed in game culture? Why?
Who was/is Floyd? Why is he significant?
Reading
How are robots portrayed in narrative? As protagonists? Antagonists? Both or neither?
How does the novel's time of release affect its view of robots? E.g. do stories from times of war portray robots more aggressively?
How does the author and their cultural origin, etc. affect how they portray robots?
Create a timeline of classic robot novels. Are they all portrayed the same way?
What was the first "robot story"? Write a review.
What is the best robot novel? Write a review.
Which narrative genre do robots typically appear in? What effect does this have on society? Are there similar themes they appear alongside? Why?
Who was Marvin? Why are people fascinated with this type of robot?
What is the difference between robots, androids, and cyborgs? Is the difference important, and will there always be differences?
What is "biorobotics"?
❓ How will you deliver your performance?
Live performance or recorded?
If recorded, make sure that it is with parental permission, and you do not publish any personal details/images online. ⚠
Research the 80's dance craze. Choreograph and perform a piece to an appropriate piece of music.
Deliver an interview with a (verbally capable) significant robot - Marvin, Floyd, C3PO, etc.
Present a slideshow - use the "Discover" or "Imagine" ideas
What instruments, techniques and arrangements create "robotic" music? Compose and/or perform a piece.
Music
What music is used in films or games involving robots? How do the instruments, compositions and arrangements make the music "roboty"?
⚠ With parental permission, host a discussion group on any of these ideas on an age-appropriate social media platform. Print out a transcript of the discussion.
Create a movie about robots
animation?
live action?
story?
non-chronological report?
Create a game about robots
Antagonist?
Protagonist?
RPG?
Simulation?
Why do you sometimes have to prove you are "not a robot" when logging into a site? Who/what are these robots? What are web crawlers?