理工英语3 unit7第二篇
Google's Fully Functional Driverless Car Is Adorable
受人青睐的谷歌全功能无人驾驶汽车
Google unveiled its latest lf-driving vehicle on Monday. It looks like a cartoon koala wearing a fez.
周一，谷歌推出了其最新款的自动驾驶汽车。车外形看起来像一只戴着土耳其毡帽的卡通考拉。
This lf-driving car is fully functional. It even has real headlights. The round, white and gray car is designed without a gas pedal or wheel. However, becau of California state law, a real person needs to be in the car and ready to take over in an emergency. The goal is to finally remove any controls inside the car. If so, pasngers can take a nap or knit while the car does all the work.
这辆自动驾驶汽车是全功能的，甚至拥有真正的车前灯。圆形车身，白灰相间，没有油门踏板系统和方向盘。然而，因为根据加利福尼亚州法律规定，汽车里需要有真人来应对紧急情况。目标是最终移除车子内部的任何控制装置，这样的话，乘客可以让车辆自行驾驶而自己可以打个瞌睡或织毛衣。
Google's lf-driving car team will continue to test the vehicle on a private track in California. There it w
orks its way around traffic lights. Google has said it's interested in launching a pilot program for the cars in the coming years.
谷歌的自动驾驶汽车团队将继续在加利福尼亚的一条私家道路上进行汽车测试。在那里，将进行车辆识别交通信号灯测试。谷歌表示有兴趣在未来几年推出一个汽车试点项目。
When the tech company first started experimenting with lf-driving technology, it modified existing cars, like a Toyota. It added multiple cameras and nsors and an onboard computer. Now Google has moved on to making its own car. The car's dome-like shape is for giving nsors the widest field of view.
科技公司首次开始尝试自主驾驶技术时，是对现有车辆（如丰田车）进行改装，车上增加多个摄像头、传感器和一部车载电脑。如今，谷歌已经转向研制自己的汽车。汽车的圆顶形状是为了给传感器最广泛的视角。
A car could help put people's minds at ea about the technology. Before lf-driving cars can start taking us to work, companies need to figure out issues like hitting a deer and improve basic driving functions.Companies also need to work with governments on legislation to allow driverless cars on all roads.
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汽车能让人对科技放下心来。在无人驾驶汽车开始可以送人们去上班之前，公司需要解决诸如开车时候撞到鹿的问题，并改进基本的驾驶功能。公司也需要与政府磋商，立法允许无人驾驶汽车在所有道路上行驶。
Google is just one of many companies developing driverless car technology. Universities and major auto manufacturers such as BMW are working on similar vehicles. Google hopes to have its own car on the road by the end of the decade.
淮阳论坛谷歌只是研发无人驾驶汽车的众多公司里的一个。许多大学还有宝马之类大的汽车制造商都在研发类似的交通工具。谷歌希望在这个十年后期能够有自己的汽车行驶在路上。
理工英语4 Unit2 第二篇
Robot Revolution? Scientists Teach Robots to Learn
机器人革命？科学家教机器人学习
小鱼吹泡泡Would a robot rving you coffee in bed make waking up easier on weekday mornings? Could a houhold robot help an elderly relative who is living alone? How would you like to climb into a robotic car and eat breakfast with the kids while you're all driven to school and work?
如果在清晨有一个机器人将咖啡送到你床边，起床上班是不是要容易一点？家用机器人是否能照顾独居老人？钻进一辆机器人轿车，和孩子们一起边享用早餐边开车去上学和上班，你感觉如何？
The scenarios may sound like science fiction, but experts say they're a lot clor to becoming reality than you probably think.
这些场景听起来像是科幻小说。不过，据专家们说，这些会比你想象的更快成为现实。
亚运会场馆Brown University roboticist Chad Jenkins expects a near-term robot revolution that will echo the computing revolution of recent decades. And he says it will be driven by enabling robots to learn more like humans do —by watching others demonstrate behaviors and by asking questions.
布朗大学的机器人学家查德·詹金斯预计，随着近几十年电脑革命的发生，一场机器人革命即将到来。这场革命的驱动理念将是让机器人能够通过观察其他人的示范行为和提问，像人类一样学习。
“The robots you're eing now mostly are analogous to the mainframe computers of the 1970s.”Jenkins said. “But you're starting to e things develop. The vacuum cleaners, the drones, tho are the initial steps.”he said, referring to iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner, which has autonomously cleaned millions of homes since its 2002 debut.
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“现在我们所看到的机器人大部分还类似于20世纪70年代的大型主机”，詹金斯说道，“但是，你会发现，改变正在发生。扫地机器人、无人机，这些都是变革的初步尝试。”他指出，iRobot公司生产的扫地机器人自2002年首次推出后，已经清洁了上百万的住家。
“And the platforms are going to get cheaper while becoming more capable and more compact.”he added.
“而且，在未来这些平台会更加便宜，同时这些平台还会有更强大的功能以及更紧凑的设计。”他补充说。
And entrepreneurs like Dmitry Grishin, founder of a major Russian investment firm dedicated to personal robotics, have taken notice. He says the industry could be worth $18 billion by 2015.
口碑分析德米特里·格里申是俄罗斯的一家致力于个人机器人技术的大型投资公司的创始人，像他这样的企业家已经注意到这点。他认为这个产业到2015年的时候将会价值180亿美元。
But to really transform, roboticists say, robots will have to evolve from machines that can perform only the tasks they're programmed to do into automatons that can truly learn. That's becau it's impossible to pre-program a robot for everything it will encounter in the ever-changing real world.
但是，机器人学家认为，要做到真正的改变，机器人必须要从只能完成预设任务的机器转变成为能够真正学习的自动机器。因为我们不可能对机器人在这不断变化的真实世界里会遇到的所有事情都预先进行编程。
“If you look at where robots are successful right now, it's primarily in applications where the environment is very controlled, like an asmbly line where everything is the same, or in the hands of experts with PhDs, where we e them on Mars.”said Chernova.
分组游戏“如果你留意一下那些成功使用了机器人的地方，就会发现，它们主要都是在环境完全受控的情况下的应用，例如，在所有东西都一样的设备流水线上，或者在我们看到的火星上的博士专家们的手里。”切洛娃说。
“To really get them to handle the complexities of our real world,”she said, “they are going to have to be customized onsite. It's not going to happen tomorrow, but it's very clo.”
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她说：“要想让机器人能真正应对我们这个复杂的真实世界，它们就得就地定制。这当然不是明天就能做到的事情，但是我们也非常接近了。”
Such a leap could help bring robots into the mainstream.
而这一飞跃将会使机器人成为主流。
