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Designing robots
Algebra provides a way to describe everyday programmed robots can perform tasks cheaply,
activities using mathematics alone. By allowing accurately and consistently, without ever getting
letters like x or y to stand for unknown numbers, tired or sick or injured, or the need for sleep
different concepts and relationships can be or food! Robots can have multiple arms, reach
described easily. much farther than a human arm and can safely
Engineers apply their knowledge of algebra lift heavy, awkward objects.
and geometry to design buildings, roads, bridges, Robots are used extensively in car
robots, cars, satellites, planes, ships and manufacturing. At one plant that uses robots
hundreds of other structures and devices that we and humans, a finished car comes off the
take for granted in our world today. assembly line every 76 seconds.
To design a robot, engineers use algebraic Understanding and applying mathematics
rules to express the relationship between the has made car manufacturing safer and also
position of the robot’s ‘elbow’ and the possible extremely efficient.
positions of a robot’s ‘hand’. Although they
cannot think for themselves, electronically
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