Robotics category: 587 books
by David E. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Robots: A Reference Handbook differs from most other books on robotics in the variety of resources that it provides to readers of all ages.
• Walks the reader through the surprisingly rich history of robotics
• Details how robots have developed across the globe
• Introduces...
Robot Operating System (ROS)
The Complete Reference (Volume 4)
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
This is the fourth volume of the successful series Robot Operating Systems: The Complete Reference, providing a comprehensive overview of robot operating systems (ROS), which is currently the main development framework for robotics applications, as well as the latest trends and contributed systems....
Generation Robot
A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
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...
We, Robot
Skywalker's Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
We, Robot does for robotics what Michio Kaku's bestselling Physics of the Impossible has done for physics. How close to becoming reality are our favorite science fiction robots? And what might be the real-life consequences of their existence? Robotics and artificial intelligence expert (and science...
The Globotics Upheaval
Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is melting language barriers, so the ranks...
by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.
With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort...
The ROV Manual
A User Guide for Observation Class Remotely Operated Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The ROV Manual: A User Guide for Observation-Class Remotely Operated Vehicles is the first manual to provide a basic ""How To"" for using small observation-class ROVs for surveying, inspection and research procedures. It serves as a user guide that offers complete training and...
Quantitative Monitoring of the Underwater Environment
Results of the International Marine Science and Technology Event MOQESM´14 in Brest, France
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This volume constitutes the results of the International Conference on Underwater Environment, MOQESM’14, held at “Le Quartz” Conference Center in Brest, France, on October 14-15, 2014, within the framework of the 9th Sea Tech Week, International Marine Science and Technology Event. The objective...
by Vladimir G Ivancevic, Tijana T Ivancevic
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
New Trends in Control Theory is a graduate-level monographic textbook. It is a contemporary overview of modern trends in control theory. The introductory chapter gives the geometrical and quantum background, which is a necessary minimum for comprehensive reading of the book. The second chapter gives...
by Tadej Bajd, Matjaž Mihelj, Marko Munih
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This book is focused on geometrical models of robot mechanisms. Rotation and orientation of an object are described by Rodrigues's formula, rotation matrix and quaternions. Pose and displacement of an object are mathematically dealt with homogenous transformation matrices. The geometrical robot model...
by Boris Schauerte
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This book presents state-of-the-art computational attention models that have been successfully tested in diverse application areas and can build the foundation for artificial systems to efficiently explore, analyze, and understand natural scenes. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most recent...
Robot Ethics 2.0
From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical....
by Paul Dumouchel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. As robots engage with people in socially meaningful ways, social robotics probes the nature of the human emotions that social robots are designed to emulate.
mBot for Makers
Conceive, Construct, and Code Your Own Robots at Home or in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The mBot robotics platform is a hugely popular kit because of the quality of components and price. With hundreds of thousands of these kits out there in homes, schools and makerspaces, there is much untapped potential. Getting Started with mBots is for non-technical parents, kids and teachers who...