Gakutensoku

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/gakutensoku

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the robot designation?Gakutensoku (學天則)
2. What is the conceptual basis?Learning from the laws of nature
3. Who built Gakutensoku?Makoto Nishimura, a scientist who studied biology and worked as a journalist, built Gakutensoku in Osaka.
4. Why was Gakutensoku special?It was the first robot made in the East and it tried to copy how nature works, showing that robots can learn from living things.

Automaton: A machine that is programmed to carry out a complex sequence of actions automatically.
Interdisciplinary: Involving or drawing upon knowledge from two or more different fields of study.
Prescient: Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place; prophetic.