Częstochowa, Poland

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Master's
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⇑Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at PCz

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: computer science
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: pcz.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Artificial Intelligence and Robotics the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. On a placement, a mobile robot keeps getting lost in a corridor, even though it worked perfectly in simulation. Where do you start?

2. What appeals to you more – machine learning algorithms, or putting them to work in physical machines?

3. How comfortable are you with the maths robotics demands – linear algebra, probability, control theory?

4. A robot arm has to pick up objects of different shapes lying in a jumble in a bin. How do you tackle it?

5. The programme is taught in English, and your project team includes people from several countries, each responsible for a different module of the robot. How do you fit in?

6. A robot is going to work side by side with people on a factory floor. What matters most to you?

7. Do you have any experience with electronics, microcontrollers or building your own devices?

8. Your navigation algorithm works well, but it’s too slow on the robot’s onboard computer. What do you do?

9. How independent are you when it comes to running a research project – from the literature review to the experiments?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science AI research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving".
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Robotics
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and others. Robotics deals with the design, construction, operation, and use of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.
Artificial Intelligence
“Either,” he proceeds, “a great deal of action that has been called purely mechanical and unconscious must be admitted to contain more elements of consciousness than has been allowed hitherto (and in this case germs of consciousness will be found in many actions of the higher machines)—Or (assuming the theory of evolution but at the same time denying the consciousness of vegetable and crystalline action) the race of man has descended from things which had no consciousness at all. In this case there is no à priori improbability in the descent of conscious (and more than conscious) machines from those which now exist, except that which is suggested by the apparent absence of anything like a reproductive system in the mechanical kingdom.
Samuel Butler, Erewhon: Or, Over the Range (1872)
Intelligence
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson, Speech to the National Press Club (20 March 1914).
Intelligence
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein, "The Goal of Human Existence", Out of My Later Years (1956), p. 260
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