A new robot dog called "Spot" has been created by Boston Dynamics. This new robot is able to navigate rough terrain and office cubicles alike. This robotic creation similar (in the form) to a dog, runs on an electric motor that powers a series of hydraulics, the motors responsible for ontrolling the movement of a mehanical system.
Spot can walk indoors, he can climb stairs and he can also run. It have a sensors that helps it navigate and walk.
OPINION:
I do not think the rason they had created this. I do not find any useful use of it, but it's impressive and nie. Maybe this is useful not for the robot tyhey had created but for improve our technological skills.
A blind man from Minnesota has been able to see for the firsty time in 10 years. The doctors provied him of bionic eye. This man is 68-year-old and he began losing his sight around twenty years ago because of a degenertive and incurable eye disease, so he loses his job in the 2005 because ha was not able to see enough, and every time his sight was worse. Now he is able to make out shapes in human forms. Mr Zderad was fitted with a seond sight implant which bypasses the damanged retina and sends light wave signal to the optic nerve and he has also an electronic chip embedded in his right eye which works in conjunction with the prosthetic decive set in pair of special glasses.
OPINION:
I think that's a great new beause it shows the advantadges of the new technology. But I do not think that this new technology will be able for everyone in a short period of time, it's only a solution for the richests mans. Although it's very unpleasant to have a bionic eye, because I think it can give you a lot of problems, as airports controlls, problems with the wather, or with the batttery, I think it's a great progress in the medicine ambit.
Words learned: bionic (electronic), degenerative (to get worse and worse), groundbreacking (new and grat), embed (to put something somewhere), in onjunction (together), prosthetic device (something which doctors give to replace an original body part).
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A policeman has shot a teenage boy in an anti government protest in Venezuela. Over 20 people clashed with police4 in a demostration over political unrest and the country's worsering economic crisis. The 14-year-old boy wa caught uo in the violence and a policeman shot him with a rubber bullet. The boss of the citizen security said the teen died in confusing cicumstances and the police officer has been arrested.
The police officer said tht they were been attacked with stones, that the people were throwing against them.
The boy died on his way to the hospital.
OPINION:
It's a very delicated situation because I thinkj that the police officer didn't kill the boy because he wanted, but he did. So he has to fulfill the law and be arrested. But It doesn't has to happen because the pòlice has to watch over for the civil and not kill them. This means thst some policemans re not qualified enough for do well his job, because they are suposed to have a good control of the guns the use.
