Initial+Proposal

Mohammed Razaki Senior Seminar Initial Proposal

**Driving Question:** My driving question for my senior seminar proposal is: how have robots affected American industry now and in the future? **Story** I want to do this project because I am going to tech. I learned about electronics engineering. I made a small robot in class, and I got used to making robots. I became curious about how to make bigger robots. I wondered why robots cost a lot. **Project ideas** I want to build a robot, and I want to talk about the future of the economy if robots cost less and are used everywhere in the world. As part of my project, I want to do an instructional video on how to make a robot. **Research Paths** Some possible areas of research needed to complete this project include: the economy, and the future of robots. **Sources Source 1 "Tool-Carrying Robot Could Weed Out Tedious Farming Tasks; The remote-controlled Hortibot does not do away with human labor, but can navigate through farm fields to relieve workers of some wearisome duties." //InformationWeek.// (July 5, 2007): NA. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Springfield Township High School. 15 Sep. 2008 .** Paula, Greg. "Cobots for the assembly line. (intelligent assist devices)." //Mechanical Engineering-CIME.// v119. n10 (Oct 1997): p82(3). //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Springfield Township High School. 15 Sep. 2008 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T002 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A20095471 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=erde79591 &version=1.0].** "Robots roll up their sleeves.(Brief Article)." //Design News.// 56. 13 (July 2, 2001): 22. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Springfield Township High School. 15 Sep. 2008 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T003 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A76880365 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=erde79591 &version=1.0].** DeMott, John S. "Look, world, no hands! (robots in small manufacturing firms; includes related article)." //Nation's Business.// v82. n6 (June 1994): p41(2). //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Springfield Township High School. 15 Sep. 2008 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T003 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A15419386 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=erde79591 &version=1.0].** __Amateur Economists__. 27 Aug. 2008. 2 Oct. 2008 . || Source 6 __Technology and Employment: Innovation and Growth in the U.S. economy__. Ed. Richard M. Cyert and David C. Mowery. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1987. __NetLibrary__. 2 Oct. 2008 .**
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 * || Park, Bhagwad Jal. "Will Robots Destroy Our Economic System?" Weblog post.
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 * [|Workers, Unions, and Industrial Robotics]
 * Thomas L. Weekley
 * [|Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science], Vol. 470, Robotics: Future Factories, Future Workers (Nov., 1983), pp. 146-151
 * Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science
 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1044808 ||

Work Plan** I anticipate that I will need materials for the robot, I will need my friends to help me videotape my instructional video, and I will need help writing my paper. I expect that I will need 30 – 50 hours to complete all parts of my senior seminar project. **Mentor/Topic Expert** My mentor will help me write the paper and use good grammar and make no mistakes. My topic expert will help me build a robot and give me all the instruments and materials I need. **Problems/Challenges** Finding a lot of facts about the negative sides of the future of robots will be a problem, because most of the information only shows the positive side of robotics. It has been difficult for me to find some negative information about robots.