18 books like Robot Builder's Sourcebook

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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: Robotique, Robotics, Technology, 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, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Robotics, 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

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

Reliability Models of Complex Systems for Robots and Automation Hamid Fazlollahtabar · 2017 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Technology, Reference, 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

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

Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics Takayuki Kanda · 2012 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Human–Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot system that works with people in everyday environments. Edited by leading figures in the field of social robotics, it draws on contributions by researchers working on the Robovie project at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, a world leader in humanoid interactive robotics. The book… Shares: Robotique, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Robotics, Robots

Robot development using Microsoft Robotics developer studio Shih-Chung Kang · 2011 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MSRDS) and LEGO robots together offer a flexible platform for creating robotic systems. Designed for novices with basic programming skills, Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio provides clear instructions on developing and operating robots. It includes an extensive array of examples, w Shares: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Robotics, Robots

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

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

Das Finanzkapital Rudolf Hilferding · 1904 · 494p · ≈ 16h · Challenging „Das Finanzkapital“ ist eine „Studie über die jüngste Entwicklung des Kapitalismus“. Für Hilferding war die Entwicklung der Aktiengesellschaften und schließlich der Monopole ein wichtiger Schritt über den Kapitalismus der freien Konkurrenz hinaus hin zu einem monopolistischen Kapitalismus. Durch die Monopolisierung und Konzentration werden kleine Unternehmer und kleine Kapitalanleger verdrängt.… Shares: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Technology, Reference

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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