?自考英語(yǔ)二（下）課文翻譯之unit6

自考英語(yǔ)二（下）課文翻譯之unit6

Unit Six

Improving Industrial Efficiency through Robotics

采用機(jī)器人技術(shù)提高工業(yè)效率

Robots , becoming increasingly prevalent in factories and industrial plants throughout the developed world, are programmed and engineered to perform industrial tasks without human intervention.

機(jī)器人在所有發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家的工廠和其他工業(yè)生產(chǎn)部門(mén)日益普遍得到應(yīng)用;機(jī)器人通過(guò)編制程序和策劃在無(wú)人干預(yù)的條件下完成工業(yè)生產(chǎn)任務(wù)。

Most of today's robots are employed in the automotive industry,where they are programmed to take over such jobs as welding and spray painting automobile and truck bodies. They also load and unload hot, heavy metalforms used in machines casting automobile and truck frames.

目前多數(shù)機(jī)器人用于汽車(chē)工業(yè)， 它們按編制的程序承擔(dān)轎車(chē)和卡車(chē)車(chē)身的焊接和噴漆這一類(lèi)的工作。 機(jī)器人還可以用來(lái)裝卸用于鑄造轎車(chē)和卡車(chē)框架的機(jī)械中的熾熱、笨重的金屬鑄模。

Robots, already taking over human tasks in the automotive field, are beginning to be seen, although to a lesser degree, in other industries as well. There they build electric motors, small appliances, pocket calculators, and even watches. The robots used in nuclear power plants handle the radioactive materials, preventing human personnel from being exposed to radiation. These are the robots responsible for the reduction in job-related injuries in this net industry.

除了已在汽車(chē)生產(chǎn)領(lǐng)域替代人工勞動(dòng)外，機(jī)器人也開(kāi)始出現(xiàn)在別的工業(yè)部門(mén)，雖然應(yīng)用的程度低一些。在那里機(jī)器人制造電機(jī)、小型器具、袖珍計(jì)算機(jī)甚至手表等。在核電站使用的機(jī)器人處理放射性材料，避免人員接觸放射性物質(zhì)。這樣的機(jī)器人在這一新工業(yè)中用來(lái)減少職業(yè)性傷害。

What makes a Robot a Robot and not just another kind of automatic machine? Robots differ from automatic machines in that after completion of one specific task, they can be reprogrammed by a computer to do another one. As an example, a robot doing spot welding one month can be reprogrammed and switched to spray painting the next. Automatic machines,on the other hand, are not capable of many different uses; they are built to perform only one task.

是什么東西決定一個(gè)自控裝置是機(jī)器人而不是一個(gè)自動(dòng)化機(jī)器呢?機(jī)器人與自動(dòng)化機(jī)器不同之處在于機(jī)器人完成某一特定任務(wù)后，可由計(jì)算機(jī)重新編制程序去完成另一項(xiàng)任務(wù)。 例如，做電焊工作 1 個(gè)月后，可以重新編制程序而轉(zhuǎn)成下個(gè)月做噴漆工作。 反之，自動(dòng)化機(jī)器不能有多種不同的用途， 它只是被制造成執(zhí)行一項(xiàng)任務(wù)。

The next generation of robots will be able to see objects, will have a sense of touch, and will make critical decisions.Engineers skilled in microelectronics and computer technology are developing artificial vision for robots. With the ability to "see", robots can identify and inspect one specific class of objects out of a stack of different kinds of materials. One robot vision system uses electronic digital cameras containing many rows of light-sensitive materials. When light from an object such as a machine part strikes the camera, the sensitive materials measure the intensity of light and convert the light rays into a range of numbers. The numbers are part of a grayscale system in which brightness is measured in a range of values. One scale ranges from 0 to 15, and another from 0 to 255. The 0 is represented by black. The highest number is white.The numbers in between represent different shades of gray. The computer then makes the calculations and converts the numbers into a picture that shows an image of the object in question. It is not yet known whether robots will one day have vision as good as human vision. Technicians believe they will, but only after years of development.

下一代機(jī)器人將有視覺(jué)和觸覺(jué)功能， 并且能夠做出關(guān)鍵性的決策。 在微電子學(xué)和計(jì)算機(jī)技術(shù)上有專(zhuān)長(zhǎng)的工程技術(shù)人員正研制機(jī)器人的人工視覺(jué)。機(jī)器人有了“看”的能力便能在一堆不同類(lèi)別的物中辨別和檢查出某一特定物體。有一種機(jī)器人的視覺(jué)系統(tǒng)使用多排光敏材料的數(shù)字電子攝像機(jī)當(dāng)一個(gè)物體(如機(jī)器零件)上的光線照射到攝像機(jī)上時(shí)， 光敏材料能測(cè)量光的強(qiáng)度并將光線轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橐幌盗袛?shù)字。這些數(shù)字是灰度系統(tǒng)的一部分，該系統(tǒng)以數(shù)值表示亮度。有的灰度范圍為0一 15，有的灰度范圍為 0 一 255。0 代表黑色，而最大的數(shù)值代表白色。中間的數(shù)字代表不同的灰色程度。 然后由計(jì)算機(jī)計(jì)算， 并將數(shù)字轉(zhuǎn)換成一幅表示該物體形態(tài)的圖像。 迄今尚不清楚機(jī)器人會(huì)不會(huì)有朝一日具有人眼那樣的視力。技術(shù)人員相信機(jī)器人會(huì)做到這一點(diǎn)的，但需要若干年的研究。

Engineers working on other advances are designing and experimenting with new types of metal hands and fingers, giving robots a sense of touch.Other engineers are writing new programs allowing robots to make decisions such as whether to discard defective parts in finished products. To do this, the robot will also have to be capable of identifying those defective parts.

從事其他先進(jìn)技術(shù)研究的工程技術(shù)人員正在設(shè)計(jì)和試驗(yàn)新型金屬手與手指，賦予機(jī)器人以觸覺(jué)。 還有的工程技術(shù)人員編制新的程序使機(jī)器人能確定諸如是否要報(bào)廢成品中有缺陷的零件。 要做到這一點(diǎn)，機(jī)器人還應(yīng)能識(shí)別哪些零件有缺陷。

These future robots, assembled with a sense of touch and ability to see and make decisions, will have plenty of work to do. They can be used to explore for minerals on the ocean floor or deep areas of mines too dangerous for humans to enter. They work as gas station attendants, firemen, housekeepers, and personnel. Anyone wanting to understand the industry of the will have to know about robotics.

具有觸覺(jué)、視覺(jué)并能決策的未來(lái)機(jī)器人將要做許多工作。它們可用來(lái)海底探礦或進(jìn)入對(duì)人危險(xiǎn)的礦井深區(qū)。機(jī)器人還可充當(dāng)汽車(chē)加油站的服務(wù)員、消防員、勤雜工以及保安人員等。任何想要了解未來(lái)工業(yè)的人必須要了解機(jī)器人

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