Robotics
A Very Short Introduction
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9780199695980
Publication date:
25/10/2012
Paperback
152 pages
170x110mm
Price: 350.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199695980
Publication date:
25/10/2012
Paperback
152 pages
Part of Very Short Introductions
Alan Winfield
Explores one of the key technologies of the modern world and its impact,Considers the use of robots in a variety of contexts - including the established manufacturing and warehouse automation to new uses in homes and hospitals,Introduces robots as an imitation of life by looking at the parts that make a robot - to build a conceptual picture of what a robot is, how it works, and how 'intelligent' it is,Examines the successes of robotics in planetary exploration,Looks to the future of robotic research and practical uses,Part of the best-selling Very Short Introductions series - over five million copies sold worldwide
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Alan Winfield
Description
Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s, when it was widely thought - by scientists and engineers as well as the public - that by turn of the 21st century we would have intelligent robots as butlers, companions, or
co-workers.
This Very Short Introduction explains how it is that robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, how robots can be both ordinary and remarkable, and looks at their important developments in science and their applications to everyday life.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
About the author
Alan Winfield, Professor, Bristol Robotics LaboratoryAlan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He conducts research in swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence, and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science and technology. He holds an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship with the theme Intelligent Robots in Science and Society, and blogs about robots, open science and related topics at http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/
Alan Winfield
Table of contents
1:Where are the intelligent robots?
2:Working robots: what robots do now
3:Biological robotics
4:Becoming human: humanoid and android robots
5:Trends in robotics research: new approaches
6:Robotic futures
Further reading
Alan Winfield
Description
Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s, when it was widely thought - by scientists and engineers as well as the public - that by turn of the 21st century we would have intelligent robots as butlers, companions, or
co-workers.
This Very Short Introduction explains how it is that robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, how robots can be both ordinary and remarkable, and looks at their important developments in science and their applications to everyday life.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
About the author
Alan Winfield, Professor, Bristol Robotics LaboratoryAlan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He conducts research in swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence, and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science and technology. He holds an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship with the theme Intelligent Robots in Science and Society, and blogs about robots, open science and related topics at http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/
Table of contents
1:Where are the intelligent robots?
2:Working robots: what robots do now
3:Biological robotics
4:Becoming human: humanoid and android robots
5:Trends in robotics research: new approaches
6:Robotic futures
Further reading
Jamie Woodward
David Muir Wood
Frank Close
John Krebs
Jerry A. Coyne
Kenneth Falconer
