Dawn Of The Robots IELTS Reading Answers

Updated On Apr 20, 2021

Dawn Of The Robots IELTS Reading Answers

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The Academic passage ‘Dawn Of The Robots ’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 14 – 26. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.

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Question number	Answer	Keywords	Location of keywords
14	v	At first sight it looked like a typical suburban road accident.	Paragraph A; Line 1
15	ii	Yet here, each car had its on-board computer loaded with a digital map and route plans, and was instructed to negotiate busy roads; differentiate between pedestrians and stationary objects; & Yet only three years earlier, at DARPA’s previous driverless car race, every robot competitor – directed to navigate across a stretch of open desert – either crashed or seized up before getting near the finishing line.	Paragraph B; Line 3 & Last line
16	viii	The robotics industry is developing in much the same way the computer business did 30 years ago,’	Paragraph C; Line 3
17	vii	Humans orient themselves with other objects in a room very easily. Robots find the task almost impossible.	Paragraph D; Lines 6 -7
18	i	‘We are no longer trying to re-create human functions. Instead, we are looking for simpler solutions with basic electronic sensors, for example.’	Paragraph E; Lines 4 – 5
19	iv	a new Hong Kong restaurant, Robot Kitchen, opened with a couple of sensor-laden humanoid machines & In Japan, University of Tokyo researchers recently unveiled a kitchen ‘android’ that could wash dishes, pour tea and make a few limited meals.	Paragraph F; Line 1 & Line 4
20	C	Machines such as these take researchers into the field of socialised robotics: how to make robots act in a way that does not scare or offend individuals.	Paragraph F; Line 9
21	B	‘We are no longer trying to re-create human functions.	Paragraph E; Line 4
22	A	The fact is we still have a way to go before real robots catch up with their science fiction counterparts/ Gates says.	Paragraph D; Line 2
23	C	‘Robots first learn basic competence – how to move around a house without bumping into things.	Paragraph F; Line 7
24	onboard computer	Yet here, each car had its on-board computer loaded with a digital map and route plans, and was instructed to negotiate busy roads; differentiate between pedestrians and stationary objects;	Paragraph B; Line 3
25	ultrasound signals	The Trilobite scuttles around homes emitting ultrasound signals to create maps of rooms, which are remembered for future cleaning.	Paragraph E; Line 7
26	touchscreen	Each possesses a touch-screen on which orders can be keyed in.	Paragraph F; Line 2

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