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From the Ted Talk by Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So what I'd like to tell you about are four roobt projects, and how they've inspired me to be a better human. By 1993, I was a young professor at USC, and I was just building up my own robotics lab, and this was the year the World Wide Web came out. And I remember my students were the ones who told me about it, and we would — we were just amazed. We started playing with this, and that aoneftron, we realized that we could use this new, universal interface to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab.

So, rather than have it fight or do industrial work, we decided to bliud a planter, put the robot into the center of it, and we called it the Telegarden. And we had put a camera in the gripper of the hand of the robot, and we wtroe some special scripts and software, so that anyone in the wlrod could come in, and by clicking on the screen, they could move the robot around and vsiit the garden. But we also set up some other software that lets you participate and help us water the gdaren, rtmoeely. And if you watered it a few tmies, we'd give you your own seed to plant.

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So what I'd like to tell you about are four _____ projects, and how they've inspired me to be a better human. By 1993, I was a young professor at USC, and I was just building up my own robotics lab, and this was the year the World Wide Web came out. And I remember my students were the ones who told me about it, and we would — we were just amazed. We started playing with this, and that _________, we realized that we could use this new, universal interface to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab.

So, rather than have it fight or do industrial work, we decided to _____ a planter, put the robot into the center of it, and we called it the Telegarden. And we had put a camera in the gripper of the hand of the robot, and we _____ some special scripts and software, so that anyone in the _____ could come in, and by clicking on the screen, they could move the robot around and _____ the garden. But we also set up some other software that lets you participate and help us water the ______, ________. And if you watered it a few _____, we'd give you your own seed to plant.

Solution


  1. visit
  2. build
  3. remotely
  4. afternoon
  5. world
  6. times
  7. robot
  8. garden
  9. wrote

Original Text


So what I'd like to tell you about are four robot projects, and how they've inspired me to be a better human. By 1993, I was a young professor at USC, and I was just building up my own robotics lab, and this was the year the World Wide Web came out. And I remember my students were the ones who told me about it, and we would — we were just amazed. We started playing with this, and that afternoon, we realized that we could use this new, universal interface to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab.

So, rather than have it fight or do industrial work, we decided to build a planter, put the robot into the center of it, and we called it the Telegarden. And we had put a camera in the gripper of the hand of the robot, and we wrote some special scripts and software, so that anyone in the world could come in, and by clicking on the screen, they could move the robot around and visit the garden. But we also set up some other software that lets you participate and help us water the garden, remotely. And if you watered it a few times, we'd give you your own seed to plant.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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