18 books like Robot

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Human-Machine Communication Andrea L. Guzman · 2018 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging in new research in this fast-developing field. Chapters provide a comprehensive grounding of the history, methods, debates and theories that contribute to the study of human-machine communication. Further to this, the Handbook provides a point of departure for… Shares: Human-machine systems, Robots

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

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

Army of none Paul Scharre · 2018 · ★ 3.9 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology to create weapons that could hunt and destroy targets on their own already exists. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in emerging weapons technologies, draws on incisive research and firsthand experience to explore how increasingly autonomous weapons are changing warfare.… Shares: Forecasting, Robotics, Robots

Robots (Fast Forward) Mark Bergin · 2000 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares: Robots, Artificial Intelligence

Anthropology of Robots and AI Kathleen Richardson · 2015 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intelligent, autonomous and… Shares: Robots, Artificial Intelligence

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

Imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals Kerstin Dautenhahn · 2003 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Mechanisms of imitation and social matching play a fundamental role in development, communication, interaction, learning and culture. Their investigation in different agents (animals, humans and robots) has significantly influenced our understanding of the nature and origins of social intelligence. Whilst such issues have traditionally been studied in areas such as psychology, biology and… Shares: Robotics, Robots

4-D/RCS, a reference model architecture for Demo III James Sacra Albus · 1997 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares: Robotics, Robots

High-Tech DIY Projects with Robotics Maggie Murphy · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Learning the ins and outs of robotics can take a lifetime, but learning the basics just takes reading one book! Different types of robots and their components, functions, and purposes are explored in a way that students will find helpful and encouraging when they begin working on their own projects. More than just a beginner’s guide, this may be the spark to ignite limitless possibility for kids… Shares: Robotics, Robots

Synergetic Agents Hermann Haken · 2012 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book addresses both multi robot systems and miniaturization to the nanoscale from a unifying point of view, but without leaving aside typical particularities of either. The unifying aspect is based on the concept of information minimization whose precise formulation is the Haken-Levi-principle. The authors introduce basic concepts of multi-component self-organizing systems such as order… Shares: Robotics, Robots

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