Imagine waking up to find a cup of coffee ready and floor swept. With smart devices (装置) controlled by AI, all housework can be done while you are asleep.

Now your kids can try these devices at the small home, shown in our community science center from August 1st to August 14th. Here in the center we have many fun activities. Children can also try out the cleaning robot Little Q. It is a cute robot with a round head, two big eyes and two long legs. It's like a big toy. Your children will love it.

Opening Hours: 1:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m., from Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Monday.

Visitors: People of all ages are welcome. Children under 12 should come along with their parents. No pets are allowed.

Food & Drinks: No outside food or drinks. Visitors can buy food and drinks in the center.

Tickets: Please call 769520 to book a ticket. Kindly note that You CAN'T book a ticket on our website or through e-mail. And it is NOT possible to buy a ticket at our ticket office as it is closed.

Researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a state-owned defense contractor, have developed and made the world's first robot whale shark (鲸鲨).

The robotic shark has been on display in an aquarium (水族馆) at Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park since January.

A whale shark is a slow-moving carpet shark and the largest known living fish.

Designed and built by engineers at the Shenyang-based No. 111 Factory, the underwater robot is 4.7 meters long, weighs 350 kilograms and can move 42 meters a minute.

Powered by a lithium battery, it can swim, turn, float and dive like a real shark by moving its mechanical fins (鳍). The mouth and gills (鳃) can also open and close like a shark's. The biomimetic (仿生的) shark is made of sensors (传感器), multi-joint fins, batteries, and systems which enable it to avoid what's in the way in all directions.

"The robot can reach a depth of 10 meters and work for as long as 10 hours," said Fang Xuelin, a senior researcher in charge of the robot shark program.

"The shark can be remotely controlled and can also swim based on preset programs or its own sensors," he said.

"We have built multiple kinds of robot fishes... the robotic whale shark is the largest mechanical fish we have made so far," Fang added. "Our robots are to serve three purposes—to perform in aquariums for entertainment, spread knowledge about the sea and aquatic (水生的) animals among youngsters, and carry out scientific tasks such as hydrological surveys, underwater photography and environmental inspection."

"The factory now plans to develop more types of aquatic robots, including some extinct mammals (哺乳动物), for display in parks and schools. It will also promote the products to businesses engaged in fields such as underwater salvage and mineral prospecting," he said.

In some science fiction movies, the robots are just like humans. They help with the housework and do the most 1 jobs.

Some scientists believe that there will be such robots in the future. 2, they agree it may 3 hundreds of years. Scientists are now trying to make robots 4 people and do the same things as us.

But robot scientist James White 5. He thinks that it will be 6for a robot to do the same things as a person. 7, it's easy for a child to wake up and know where he is. Mr White thinks that robots won't be able to do this. But other scientists disagree. They think that robots will be able to talk to people 8 25 to 50 years.

Robot scientists are not just trying to make robots look like people. For example, there are already robots 9 in factories. They do simple jobs over and over again. People would not like to do such jobs and would get bored. But robots will 10 get bored.

In the future, there will be more robots everywhere, and humans will have 11 work to do. New robots will have many different 12. Some will look like humans, and 13 might look like snakes. After an earthquake(地震), a snake robot could help look for people under buildings. That may not seem possible now, but computers, space rockets and even electric toothbrushes 14 impossible a hundred years ago. We never know 15 will happen in the future!

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