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Robot Builder's Sourcebook Gordon McComb · 2002 · 711p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Written by Gordon McComb, author of the classic Robot Builder’s Bonanza, one of the most popular books ever written on amateur robotics, the Sourcebook lists over 2500 mail-order suppliers and other sources, including local-area businesses, cross-referenced and categorized to make your search quick and easy. You’ll find detailed information about the resources, including addresses and phone… Shares: Robotique, Robotics, Technology, Robots

Robot modeling and control Mark W. Spong · 2005 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate A New Edition Featuring Case Studies and Examples of the Fundamentals of Robot Kinematics, Dynamics, and ControlIn the 2nd Edition of Robot Modeling and Control, students will cover the theoretical fundamentals and the latest technological advances in robot kinematics. With so much advancement in technology, from robotics to motion planning, society can implement more powerful and dynamic… Shares: Robotique, Robotics, Robots

Practical Robot Design M. Fikret Ercan · 2013 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Designed for beginners, undergraduate students, and robotics enthusiasts, Practical Robot Design: Game Playing Robots is a comprehensive guide to the theory, design, and construction of game-playing robots. Drawing on years of robot building and teaching experience, the authors demonstrate the key steps of building a robot from beginning to end, wi Shares: Robotique, Robotics, Robots, Science

Robots Clive Gifford · 2003 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Filled with over 150 brain-busting puzzles and quizzes – fully illustrated throughout!Are you a whizz at animal trivia? Do travel facts float your boat? Do you know all there is to know about dinosaurs?Put your knowledge to the test in this fun-packed book of puzzles and quizzes! Look out for spot the difference, mazes, odd one out and word puzzles – and, of course, bags of quiz questions on… Shares: Robotics, Robots

Teleoperation and robotics Jean Vertut · 1985 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate It is a privilege to be asked to introduce this important work. Such a book has long been needed. Industrial manipulators and robots have caught the attention of the general public and become very fashionable in the last few years. The casual reader of current newspapers and magazit:les or the viewer of television and films might easily conclude that the development of mechanical hands, arms and… Shares: Robotics, Robots

Magnetic forces Elizabeth Lachner · 2008 Shares: Robotics, Robots

Helper Robots Nancy Furstinger · 2014 · ★ 3.5 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Robots help people in many situations. Some robots rescue people trapped by tornadoes or earthquakes. Others explore volcanoes and the seafloor. And some help scientists protect our environment. How might helper robots affect your life? Read this book to find out! Shares: Robotics, Robots

Gods and Robots Adrienne Mayor · 2018 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate xvi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm Shares: Robotics, Robots, Science

Generation robot Terri Favro · 2018 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation--from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture robots in movies, in comic books, and on TV in the 1960s to adulthood where the possibilities of… Shares: Robotics, Technology, Robots, Science

Zhongguo zao qi ke ji qi kan hui bianYasha Jiang

Zhongguo zao qi ke ji qi kan hui bian Yasha Jiang · 2008 · 739p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Shares: Technology, Science

Obsolete Garrison Lovely · 2024 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Is AI a bubble or humanity’s last invention? An existing harm or an existential threat? Obsolete cuts through the hype and false binaries to answer all the AI questions you have, while raising some you probably aren’t prepared for.The richest companies in history are racing to build a machine that replaces human labor—all of it. And, as this provocative new book insists, the only surefire way… Shares: Technology, Science

Digital People Sidney Perkowitz · 2004 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of the technology around us. Understanding the physics of our universe is an essential aspect of humanity's quest to understand our environment and our place within it. Doing physics enables us to explore the interaction between environment and human… Shares: Robotics, Robots

Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Theodor Borangiu · 2015 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers which were presented at the 5th edition of the International Workshop “Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Man-ufacturing – SOHOMA’15” organized in November 5-6, 2015 by the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) of the University of Cambridge, UK in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics of… Shares: Robotics, Robots

Modeling, identification & control of robots W. Khalil · 2001 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modelling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure. No other publication covers the three fundamental issues of robotics: modelling, identification and control. It covers the development of various mathematical models required for the control and simulation of… Shares: Robotics, Technology, Robots, Science

Neural network control of robot manipulators and nonlinear systems Frank L. Lewis · 1998 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares: Robotics, Technology, Robots, Science

Designing Robots, Designing Humans Cathrine Hasse · 2019 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this point in history. Robotic design is advancing at an incredible pace, and consequently the role of robots has expanded beyond mechanical work in the industrial sector to the social… Shares: Robotique, Robotics, Robots

Social Robotics Arvin Agah · 2010 · 1037p · ≈ 34h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Kansas City, MO, USA, in November 2016. The 98 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions.The theme of the 2016 conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots interacting with each other… Shares: Robotics, Robots

Treatise on Good Robots Krzysztof Tchon · 2013 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This volume investigates the ways emerging technologies in the fields of robotics and bio-robotics are influencing society. It necessarily considers both philosophical and technological study of robots, including what it means for robots to exist as good and moral entities, and how they benefit humans and enhance their quality of life. Contributors address artificial intelligence and social… Shares: Robotique, Robotics, Robots

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