MODULE 7

When Technology and Humanity Cross

LEARNING ACTIVITY 1. Let’s Watch and learn

After watching the Technology- a tool for good or evil

by Darlene Damn at TEDxDanubia, identify the positive and
negative impacts of technology by filling ta table below.

Positive Impact Negative Impact Possible Issue

Better time The one negative Too much focus on
management thanks impact of automation. Yes,
productivity apps. technology is lack automation and
Improved health of sleep. Most multi-platform
thanks to easy to adults sleep with management might
fitness routine, their cellphones be ideal for big
biometric devices, nearby, and so do name brands and
and diet their children. In companies, but for
management fact, four out of small site owners
software. Easier five teens sleep and business, its
and cheaper with their just overkill. Way
communication with cellphones in too many people
friends and their room, and are over
family. Increased nearly a third of complicating
job opportunities them sleep with things. Sticks to
due to the the phones on your business
introduction of their beds. model and what
remote working. works without
trying to overload
the process.
LEARNING ACTIVITY 2. Let’s Us Dig Deeper!

Make a timeline tracing the emergence and development of

robotics in the Philippines indicating the year and
event/s in a table format. Give also your insight on what
other technological advancements on robotics can possibly
be developed in the future.

DATES EVENTS
3500 B.C.E. . The Greek myths of Hephaestus and
Pygmalion incorporate the idea of
intelligent mechanisms.
2500 B.C.E. The Egyptians invent the idea of
thinking “machines”: their
advice-giving oracles are statues
with priests hidden inside
1400 B.C.E. The Babylonians develop the water
clock, considered one of the
first robotic devices
800 B.C.E. Automata appear in Homer's Iliad.
400 B.C.E. Chinese engineer King- hinese engineer King-Shu Tse
Shu Tse designs a mechanical bird designs a mechanical bird and
and horse. 350 B.C.E. Greek horse.
mathematician Archytas of
Tarentum constructs a mechanical
wooden bird whose movements are
controlled by a jet of steam or
compressed air. 270 B.C.E.C 200
B.C.E. Chinese artisans develop
elaborate automata.
350 B.C.E. Greek mathematician Archytas of
Tarentum constructs a mechanical
wooden bird whose movements are
controlled by a jet of steam or
compressed air.
200 B.C.E Chinese artisans develop
elaborate automata.
725 Chinese engineer Liang Lingzan
and Buddhist monk Yi Xing build a
water-driven device with the
world's first clockwork
escapement mechanism – the first
true mechanical clock.
1495 Italian artist and inventor
Leonardo da Vinci designs an
artificial man in the form of an
armored Germanic knight, the
first humanoid robot in Western
civilization.
1580 Czech Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague
is said to have brought to life a
clay man known as the Golem to
defend the Jews of Prague from
anti-Semitic attacks
1725 A mechanical theatre featuring
119 animated figures that perform
a play to the accompaniment of a
water-powered organ is built at
the Heilbrunn chateau in Germany.
1737 French inventor Jacques Vaucanson
creates several robotic beings,
including a human-sized android
flutist and an automatic duck
that simulates quacking,
drinking, eating, paddling in
water, digesting and excreting.
1760 German inventor Friedrich von
Knauss creates an android able to
hold a pen and write a piece of
up to 107 words.
1773 Swiss inventors Pierre and Henry
Louis Jaquet-Droz create various
automatons, including one that
draws four pre-programmed
pictures.
1801 French inventor Joseph Jacquard
builds an automated loom that is
controlled with punch cards.
1818 English author Mary Shelley
writes Frankenstein, about an
artificial man created by Dr.
Frankenstein.
1833 Charles Babbage begins work on
his “Analytical Engine”, one of
the first computational machines.
1847 English mathematician George
Boole invents a symbolic logic
(now called Boolean logic) that
would become basic to the design
of digital computer circuits.
1888 Serbian-American inventor Nikola
Tesla develops the first
alternating-current induction
motor.
1890 Nikola Tesla creates the first
remote-controlled vehicles.
1892 American engineer Seward Babbitt
designs a motoriz
1921 Czech author Karel Capek coins
the word “robot” to describe
mechanical people in his play
"R.U.R" (Rossum's Universal
Robots).

1926 The film Metropolis features the

first movie robot, “Maria.”
1936 British mathematician and
computer scientist Alan Turing
completes his seminal paper On
Computable Numbers and introduces
the concept of a theoretical
computer called the Turing
Machine.
1938 American engineers Willard
Pollard and Harold Roselund
design a programmable paint-
spraying mechanism.
1939 Elektro, a 7-foot-tall, 260-pound
mechanical man built by
Westinghouse, appears at the New
York World's Fair. ELEKTRO walks,
talks and smokes.
1942 1942 American author Isaac Asimov
popularizes the term "robotics"
and sets out his “three laws of
robotics” in his story
"Runaround."
1943 Colossus, the world's first
large-scale programmable
electronic digital computer, is
built in Britain by a team of
mathematicians, electrical
engineers and intelligence agents
to crack Nazi codes.
1945 American physicist John Mauchly
and American engineer J. Presper
Eckert create ENIAC (Electronic
Numerical Integrator And
Computer), the first American
electronic digital computer, to
run ballistics calculations for
the United States Army.
1946 American engineer George Devol
patents a playback device for
controlling machines, using
magnetic recording.
1948 MIT professor Norbert Wiener
publishes Cybernetics or Control
and Communication in the Animal,
a book which describes the
concept of communications and
control in electronic, mechanical
and biological systems.
1950 Alan Turing proposes a test to
determine whether or not a
machine has gained the power to
think for itself. It becomes
known as the "Turing Test".
1951 American engineer Raymond Goertz
designs the ElectroMechanical
Manipulator, the first remotely-
controlled articulated arm, for
the Atomic Energy Commission.
1954 American engineers George Devol
and Joe Engleberger design the
first programmable robot "arm,"
the world's first industrial
robot.
1956 American researchers Allen
Newell, Herbert Simon and John
Shaw create the Logic Theorist,
the first artificial intelligence
program.
1959 Researchers John McCarthy and
Marvin Minsky start the
Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory at MIT.
1960 Unimation is purchased by Condec
Corporation and the development
of Unimate Robot Systems begins.
1962 The first Unimate robot is
installed in a General Motors
plant in Trenton, New Jersey. The
assembly line spot welding robot
is controlled step-by-step by
commands stored on a magnetic
drum.
1964 Artificial intelligence research
laboratories are opened at MIT,
Stanford Research Institute
(SRI), Stanford University and
the University of Edinburgh.
1965 Carnegie Mellon University
establishes the Robotics
Institute.
1967 MIT researcher Richard Greenblatt
 writes MacHack, the first chess
program to win against a person
in a chess tournament. The first
robot – an AMF Versatran – is
imported into Japan
1968 Marvin Minsky develops a
computer-controlled, hydraulic-
powered, wall-mounted tentacle
arm.
1969 The Japanese company Kawasaki
develops the Kawasaki-Unimate
2000, the first industrial robot
ever produced in Japan, with
technology licensed from
Unimation.
1973 Cincinnati Milacron Corporation
releases the T3, (The Tomorrow
Tool) the first commercially
available minicomputer-controlled
industrial robot.
1975 Victor Scheinman develops the
Programmable Universal
Manipulation Arm, which becomes
widely used in industry.
1979 Austrian researcher Hans Moravec
creates the Stanford Cart, an
autonomous vehicle that can
navigate across a room full of
obstacles.
1982 The film Blade Runner features
androids that are "more human
than human."
1985 The PUMA 560 robotic surgical arm
is used in the first documented
use of a robot-assisted surgical
procedure.
1986 LEGO collaborates with the MIT
Media Lab to bring the first
LEGObased educational products to
market.
1989 The Mobile Robots Group at MIT
creates a walking robot named
Genghis.
1992 American neurosurgeon John Adler
invents the CyberKnife, a robot
that images a patient and
delivers a pre-planned dose of
radiation.
1994 Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute's Dante II
 robot descends into the crater of
the Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska
to sample volcanic gases.
1996 MIT researchers Michael S.
Triantafyllou and David Barrett
develop a robo-tuna.
1997 The Pathfinder Mission lands on
Mars. Its free-ranging robotic
rover Sojourner, returns 2.3
billion bits of information,
including more than 17,000
images, more than 15 chemical
analyses of rocks and soil and
extensive data on winds and other
weather factors.
1999 Sony releases the Aibo
electronic dog robot, which
reacts to sounds and has some
preprogrammed behavior.
Probotics, Inc. releases the Cye
personal robot that can be used
to perform a variety of household
chores.
2000 Honda releases ASIMO, the next
generation of its series of
humanoid robots. The United
Nations estimat
2001 The Space Station Remote
Manipulator System (SSRMS) is
successfully launched into orbit
and begins operations to complete
assembly of the International
Space Station.
2002 iRobot releases the Roomba
autonomous robot vacuum. British
cybernetics professor Kevin
Warwick becomes the first cyborg
in the world by controlling
electronic devices with his
nervous system through an 100-
electrodes array implanted into
his arm.
2005 A team of researchers at Cornell
University builds the first
selfreplicating robot.
2011 Robonaut 2, a human-like robotic
assistant developed jointly by
NASA and General Motors, is
launched into space on space
shuttle Discovery as part of the
 STS-133 mission to become
permanent resident of the
International Space Station.
2012 The first driverless car is
licensed in Nevada.
2014 hitchBOT, a robot created by a
team of Canadian researchers,
“hitchhikes” across Canada and
Europe on a mission to explore
cultural attitudes toward social
robotics. hitchBOT is destroyed
in Philadelphia in 2015

Point to Ponders

On a clean sheet of paper, write your reflection on the

following question:

1. How is technology affecting our human rights?

New technology offers a range of opportunities to

protect human rights. For instance, satellite and other
imagery sources are increasingly being used to monitor
and uncover gross human rights violations. Such images
can later be used as evidence in bringing perpetrators to
justice.
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence and
automation is disrupting the global jobs market and
significantly impacting the right to fair and decent
work. Experts estimate that by 2020, 85% of all customer
interactions will be handled without a human agent, with
support coming in the form of chatbots and self- service
technologies.
2. What other ethical dilemmas faced by the community
regarding robotics?
With the ”robots” killing people by “ self- driving
EV”. this is probably the most representative. The
trolley problem: should the robot pull the lever to
divert the runaway trolley onto the side track. The word
“you” was replaced by “the robot” not only to make a
point but to stress that the switch is operated by
“robots” as we talk and similar unsolved problem exist
for self- driving vehicles.

ASSESSMENT TASK
Technology Today
Our society is enjoying technological processes and
that provide our needs and making our life comfortable
without considering much of the impacts in our lives and
in our environment. Our concern is focused on how we can
avail of these technologies and more often than not, we
failed to look into what these technologies are ripping
off from us in terms of having meaningful life. Let us
look at the following technological and their effects in
our life.

A. In Agriculture:
 Mechanization in agriculture. Use of Power tillers,
Reapers, Seed planters, Mechanical sprayers,
rotovators and other mechanical implements.
 Hybridization of plants and animals. Production of
high yielding varieties and a shorter period of
development thus higher yield and quality of products.
 Use of pesticides and herbicides to ensure production.

Positive Effects:
Because of the new invented technology the work of the
farmer become easier.

Negative Effects:
Not because it became easier doesn’t that it doesn’t
have any negative effect, instead of having a natural/
plant the plants were having a chemical or fresh.

B. In information and Communication Technology

 Use of Mobile phones, computers and television(in
communication, computing, photography, games, online
shopping, clocks, calendars, planner, etc.)
 Access to the world wide web or internet ( one stop
for information). accessibility in all types and form
of information.

Positive Effects:
It makes easier for each individual to finished their
tasked in an instant, and help them to gain knowledge
through searching and watching educational videos.

Negative Effects:
Teenage now a days base their claims and facts through
watching Tiktok videos and reading articles that is not
valid and not trusted cite.

C. In Medicine:
 The use of different life support systems.
 Organ Transplants and production of artificial human
parts.
 Use of non- invasive surgeries, cryosurgery, laser
technology in surgery.
 In vitro babies, ultrasound examination, Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Positive Effects:
The medicines are the helpful effects you get, such as
easing pain, controlling blood sugar, lowering blood
pressure, or curing an infection.

Negative Effects:
When you take a lot of medicine you can overdose.

D. In the Banking System

 Use of ATM cards, credit cards, cash cards
 Money Transfer system

Positive Effects:
In case of emergency you can now use technology to
withdraw money through online banking, you don’t need to
fall in line just withdraw cash.

Negative Effects:
You can get scammed if you are not careful enough.

E. In the Food Industry

 Availability of instant foods in supermarkets
 Production of food products from Generally Modified
Organisms (GMOS)
 Mechanization in food production

Positive Effects:
Foods are usually processed to kill harmful bacteria
or other microorgaisms, to make them safer and for longer
shelf life.

Negative Effects:
You are not sure if you bought a good with a clean
and good quality.