robotics

"What kind of robots can help humans to deal with disasters? Helper robots! These robots can go where humans can't safely travel. Learn all about them in this book."--.

Ever since he was a teenager, Sebastian Thrun wanted to build machines that helped people. Follow his rise from a computer enthusiast to robotics innovator.

Discusses how the latest developments in the field of robotics is shaping the future economy and explains how humans will benefit from a fully automated society.

Within forty years, human equivalence will be achieved as we are fast approaching the time when the boundaries between biological and postbiological intelligence will dissolve.

Explains the nature of robots, describes the kinds of tasks they can perform, and predicts their future uses.

Introduces different types of robots and shows how they are used to do things like exploring outer space or the ocean floor.

Discusses the history of robots, robots of the imagination, robots in the real world, robots that think, the robot brain, and robots and the future.

Describes the development of robots, how they work, and their many uses in industry, medicine, transportation, scientific experiments, and the home.

Offers an introduction to the field of robotics, looking at the history of the field and where it is going, as well as how robots are built, made to move, made to perform actions, and sense their surroundings.