Author : Jordan Brown
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531167823
Discusses the life and achievements of robot designer Cynthia Breazeal.
Author : Peter Menzel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262632454
Information about intelligent robots and their makers, including photographis, interviews, behind-the-scenes information and technical date about machines that is easy to understand.
Author : Jennifer Robertson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0520283198
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots—humanoids, androids, and animaloids—are “imagineered” in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether “civil rights” should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the “normal” body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.
Author : Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307740803
In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us.
Author : Manuela Veloso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 354045327X
This book is the third official archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, Robo-Cup-99, held in Stockholm, Sweden in July/August 1999. The book presents the following parts - Introductory overview and survey - Research papers of the champion teams and scientific award winners - Technical papers presented at the RoboCup-99 Workshop - Team description of a large number of participating teams. This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source or reference and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.
Author : Linda Zajac
Publisher : Millbrook Press TM
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728423007
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a . . . robo-hummingbird? Meet robots engineered using biomimicry that are built to move like animals. These robots are changing the way we live today and shaping the way we'll live in the future. On spreads pairing photos of robots with the animals they mimic, you'll discover robots that race through water like fish, run like cheetahs, jump like a kangaroo, swarm through the sky like honeybees, and more!
Author : Philip Brophy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838713956
An exploration of the wonderfully complex and beautifully disorienting world of Japanese animation - anime. Provides an overview of the importance of the anime industry in Japan by analysing 100 of its most important and influential productions. An ideal introduction to a fascinating genre.
Author : Jennifer MacKay
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1420503685
Many of our imaginative inventions eventually come to fruition, and the robot is one such creation. The science-fiction robots of yesteryear are here. From assembly lines to teaching tools, robots are a reality that author Jennifer MacKay richly explores in this book. Readers will learn robotic history, how robots move, "think," and are used. They will also consider future uses.
Author : Jordan D. Brown
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309095563
Cynthia Breazeal is a creature creator. Armed with electronic gadgets, software programs, and her endless imagination, she creates lifelike machines that can respond to the world around them. Cynthia Breazeal is a roboticist, a scientist who designs, builds, and experiments with robots. As a child, she relied on movies to see robots in action. Now robots are part of her daily life at the MIT Media Lab. There, she and her students use their computer science and engineering skills to work on marvels like Leonardo, a robot that interacts with people in ways that seem almost human. Cynthia's other world-famous projects include Kismet, an emotionally intelligent robot that smiles, frowns, and babbles like a baby. Why create robots like these? Cynthia can picture a future where sociable robots exist to benefit people. She works hard every day to turn that dream into a reality. Firsthand accounts from Cynthia and from those who know her best combine to tell the inspiring story of a curious, sports-loving girl who went on to become a worldclass roboticist. Robo World is also a Captivating story of high-tech invention where the stuff of science fiction becomes real in today's labs.
Author : Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512418269
"Artificial intelligence promises to make our lives easier and better. Learn about the accelerated pace of technology as things that were once science fiction become science fact"--
