WHILE-LISTENING. Watch the video-track and answer the following questions:

Watch the video-track and answer the following questions:

4. What are the main types of industrial robots that are mentioned in the text?

5. What are the advantages of using a robot instead of manual welding?

6. What can robotic welding provide?

7. What is the result of robotic welding?

8. Where are industrial robots mostly used?

POST-LISTENING

9. Why are industrial robots becoming so popular in modern manufacturing? Use the answers to the questions above to answer this question.

ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS

(01:06)

PRE-LISTENING

1. What is a robot?

2. What is an ‘industrial robot’?

3. What is robotics?

4. What do robotic engineers do?

5. Do you know the following words:

“sophisticated”, “stock exchange”.

WHILE-LISTENING

Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:

00:00 – 00:22

6. What is RTS (Robotic Technology System)?

7. What does RTS specialize in?

00:23 – 00:39

8. Fill in the gaps in the following passage with the words you hear:

… A recognized (1) __________ in a chosen (2) __________ RTS operates (3) __________, supplying (4) __________ and innovative (5) __________ for life science drug discovery, food (6) __________ applications, and (7) __________ and support (8) __________ in the nuclear industry. …

00:40 - end

9. What do engineers of this company help their clients to do?

10. What financial organization does RTS cooperate with?