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Biomechanics of Anthropomorphic Systems

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Mechanical laws of motion were applied very early for better understanding anthropomorphic action as suggested in advance by Newton «For from hence are easily deduced the forces of machines, which are compounded of wheels, pullies, levers, cords, and weights, ascending directly or obliquely, and...

Make Your First Robot

Robotics programming for beginners.

by Vineesh Kumar K K
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017

Make your First Robot will help students to build and program their first robot using Arduino. It starts with an introduction of the hardware and software required to build and program the robots. The concepts are explained with simple analogies. Detailed explanation of the functionalities and programming...

Robot Operating System (ROS)

The Complete Reference (Volume 2)

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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017

This second volume is a continuation of the successful first volume of this Springer book, and as well as addressing broader topics it puts a particular focus on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Robot Operating System (ROS). Consisting of three types of chapters: tutorials, cases studies, and...

The LEGO BOOST Activity Book

by Daniele Benedettelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

At last, fans of the LEGO BOOST robot building kit have the learning resource they've been missing! Enter The LEGO BOOST Activity Book: a full-color guide that will help readers learn how to build and code LEGO creations that move, explore their environment, grab and lift objects, and more. The...

New Developments and Advances in Robot Control

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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019

This book highlights relevant studies and applications in the area of robotics, which reflect the latest research, from interdisciplinary theoretical studies and computational algorithm development, to representative applications. It presents chapters on advanced control, such as fuzzy, neural, backstepping,...

Underwater Robots

by Gianluca Antonelli
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

A classic in underwater robotics. One of the first volumes in the “Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics” series, it has been a bestseller through the previous three editions. Fifteen years after the publication of the first edition, the fourth edition comes to print. The book addresses the main...

Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018

Foreword by Sigrid Brell-Çokcan and Johannes Braumann, Association for Robots in Architecture

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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018

The book presents research from Rob|Arch 2018, the fourth international conference on robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design. In capturing the myriad of scientific advances in robotics fabrication that are currently underway – such as collaborative design tools, computerised materials,...

Metrics of Sensory Motor Coordination and Integration in Robots and Animals

How to Measure the Success of Bioinspired Solutions with Respect to their Natural Models, and Against More ‘Artificial’ Solutions?

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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2019

This book focuses on a critical issue in the study of physical agents, whether natural or artificial: the quantitative modelling of sensory–motor coordination. Adopting a novel approach, it defines a common scientific framework for both the intelligent systems designed by engineers and those...

Robotics and Well-Being

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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

This book highlights some of the most pressing safety, ethical, legal and societal issues related to the diverse contexts in which robotic technologies apply. Focusing on the essential concept of well-being, it addresses topics that are fundamental not only for research, but also for industry...

2062

The World that AI Made

by Toby Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018

‘A compelling invitation to imagine the future we want’ —BRIAN CHRISTIAN, author of The Most Human Human By 2062 we will have built machines as intelligent as us – so the leading artificial intelligence and robotics experts predict. But what will this future look like? In 2062,...

Almost Human: Making Robots Think

by Lee Gutkind
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010

A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy. The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world’s first...

How to Build an Android

The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection

by David F. Dufty
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick In late January 2006, a young robotocist on the way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas....

The Robots Among Us

by Len Calderone
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

Not long ago, robots were just in the realm of science fiction. Today, we find them everywhere in our daily lives. They are in medicine, the legal profession, manufacturing, law enforcement, home care, the hospitality industry, the military and space. They are becoming smarter as they are given artificial...

Making Simple Robots

Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff

by Kathy Ceceri
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015

Making Simple Robots is based on one idea: Anybody can build a robot! That includes kids, school teachers, parents, and non-engineers. If you can knit, sew, or fold a flat piece of paper into a box, you can build a no-tech robotic part. If you can use a hot glue gun, you can learn to solder basic...