18 books like Generation robot

What to read after Generation robot — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The driver in the driverless car Vivek Wadhwa · 2017 · ★ 2.5 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Technology is advancing faster than ever--but for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments such as personalized genomics, self-driving cars, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, these very same technologies could raise the specter of a frightening and alienating future--eugenics, a jobless… Shares: Technological innovations, Technology, Social aspects, Artificial Intelligence

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, Artificial Intelligence

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, Artificial Intelligence

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

Kentukis Samanta Schweblin · 2014 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're little mechanical stuffed animals that have cameras for eyes, wheels for… Shares: Technological innovations, Technology, Social aspects, Science Fiction

Transactions on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing Shanben Chen · 2017 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation. The book is mainly based on papers selected from the 2019 International Workshop on Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing (IWIWM'2019) in USA. The articles show that the intelligentized… Shares: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Huimin Lu · 2017 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, ISAIR 2024, in Guilin, China, in September 27–30, 2024. The 61 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 164 submissions. The ISAIR 2024 focuses on three important areas of pattern recognition: artificial intelligence,… Shares: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence

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

Artificial intelligence Stephanie Sammartino McPherson · 2017 · ★ 5.0 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Read about the history of artificial intelligencefrom smart cars to dronesand learn how the fields of AI and neurology work together to create "thinking machines." You'll also consider the pros and cons of AI and discover what lies ahead. Shares: Technological innovations, Robots, Artificial Intelligence

R.U.R. and The insect play Karel Čapek · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "In 1920 Čapek wrote what was to become his most famous work, the play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)', a meditation on the themes of humanity and subjugation that introduced the 'robot'. He was prolific throughout the 1920s, his plays addressing a range of subjects, although best remembered as a writer of early science fiction. Čapek also dealt with contemporary moral and political issues,… Shares: Technological innovations, Robots, Science Fiction

Nunquam Lawrence Durrell · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A desperate scientist's mastery of technology may save him—or be his undoing—in this follow-up to Tunc by the New York Times–bestselling literary master.   The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell's Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister international firm, Merlin, to apply his scientific prowess to a seemingly impossible project. He must literally… Shares: Technology, Social aspects, Robots

Electronic Skin Ali Ibrahim · 2020 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Considerable amount of effort has been devoted, over the recent years, towards the development of electronic skin (e-skin) for many application domains such as prosthetics, robotics, and industrial automation.Electronic Skin: Sensors and Systems focuses on the main components constituting the e-skin system. The e-skin system is based on: i) sensing materials composing the tactile sensor array,… Shares: Robotics, Technology, Robots, Science

Novacene James Lovelock · 2019 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A fascinating new study from the originator of the Gaia Theory, “who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin” (Independent)One of the world’s leading scientific thinkers offers a vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence unite to save the Earth. James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental… Shares: Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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