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WowWee Alive Chimpanzee

WowWee Alive Chimpanzee is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand WowWee Alive Chimpanzee rather than just read about it. In short: The Alive Chimpanzee is produced by WowWee Alive, a division of WowWee Ltd. The animatronic Chimpanzee is the first in WowWee Alive's product line.

Key takeaways

WowWee Alive Chimpanzee belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect WowWee Alive Chimpanzee to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of WowWee Alive Chimpanzee from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Alive Chimpanzee is produced by WowWee Alive, a division of WowWee Ltd. The animatronic Chimpanzee is the first in WowWee Alive's product line. Unlike WowWee's other robots, the Chimpanzee only consists of the head of a chimpanzee. It houses eight motors to mimic the facial expressions of a real chimp. It also contains 9 sensors, including IR sensors in the eyes, touch sensors on the chin, top and rear of the head and sound and vibration sensors in the ear. There is also an Alive Elvis manufactured. In attempting to make the Chimpanzee as realistic as possible, each strand of hair is rooted individually into the skin of the robot and the skin moves and is colored to match realistic skin tones, including veining. As with other WowWee robots, the Chimpanzee can be operated in different modes; in its case, the modes are Alive, Guard, Program, Demo and Sleep. A Popular Science article on Halloween decorating describes how one can remove the robot's skin to create a Terminator-like robot face.

Features Some of the Chimpanzee's notable features are:

Mood dependent behavior: responds to stimuli with mood specific animations and sounds Infrared vision system: detects movement, tracks objects and reacts to human interaction Touch sensors in his chin, head and ears Stereo sound sensors detect loud sounds Remote control or autonomous interactivity Visual and sonic guard mode Program mode Sleep mode Four Moods:

Curious Fearful Happy Angry Modes of Operation:

Alive: default mode. Reacts to sensory input, and performs autonomous actions. Direct Control: responds to user commands. Program: Up to 20 distinct steps (movements and sounds) can be entered in an ordered sequence that will be stored and can be played back at a later time. Guard: Uses the vision and sound sensors to detect intruders around it, and reacts in response, either with a random animation or if a program has been entered. Demo: runs through 2 or 3 random animations. Sleep: the Chimpanzee will power down after a preset amount of time without activity.

See also AIBO Humanoid robot Roboraptor Roboreptile Robosapien v2 WowWee

References

External links WowWee Alive Archived 2014-01-12 at the Wayback Machine - WowWee Alive Product site

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with WowWee Alive Chimpanzee

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what WowWee Alive Chimpanzee claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to WowWee Alive Chimpanzee before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about WowWee Alive Chimpanzee ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of WowWee Alive Chimpanzee

In research: WowWee Alive Chimpanzee appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses WowWee Alive Chimpanzee in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: WowWee Alive Chimpanzee is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Animatronic animal robots, Chimpanzees and humans, Robot heads, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for WowWee Alive Chimpanzee outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study WowWee Alive Chimpanzee in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what WowWee Alive Chimpanzee means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain WowWee Alive Chimpanzee out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is WowWee Alive Chimpanzee in simple terms?

The Alive Chimpanzee is produced by WowWee Alive, a division of WowWee Ltd. The animatronic Chimpanzee is the first in WowWee Alive's product line.

Why does WowWee Alive Chimpanzee matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study WowWee Alive Chimpanzee?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on WowWee Alive Chimpanzee.