Amazing Robots

Explores how robots are used in space exploration.

Explores robots in the military, including underwater bots, flying mini-bots, and robot soldiers.

An introduction to robotics use in medicine, from tiny capsules that patients swallow and take pictures inside the body to surgical devices and robotic arms that dispense drugs.

NASA wouldn't know nearly as much about the planet Mars without space probes. A special kind of robot that can fly through space, space probes have gone to the asteroid belt and even traveled near Jupiter to take pictures of it!.

Robotics is already used to protect people in cities all around the United States. As robot technology continues to grow, patrolling human police officers could someday be a thing of the past! Humanoid robots might be rolling around city streets or heading into dangerous situations in place of police officers. From surveillance cameras to bomb disposal, the incredible robots already used in law enforcement will engage and surprise readers. The main text explains the real-life technology used today, and full-color photographs enhance the science and engineering content.

Readers learn how integral robots have become in many parts of industry, including in production, factories, and situations dangerous for people.

Without underwater robots, people never would have been able to explore the shipwreck of the Titanic as much as they have. From mapping the ocean floor to testing water quality, the jobs these robots can do are astounding. Through many examples and full-color photographs, readers dive deep with underwater robots, learning the technology behind these amazing machines and how they help people every day. Sidebars complement the main content with information about robotics engineers, environmental issues underwater, and the truly inventive science of underwater robots.

Explores how robots are used underwater.

An introduction to robotics use in medicine, from tiny capsules that patients swallow and take pictures inside the body to surgical devices and robotic arms that dispense drugs.