Robotics category: 587 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
How and why to write a movement? Who is the writer? Who is the reader? They may be choreographers working with dancers. They may be roboticists programming robots. They may be artists designing cartoons in computer animation. In all such fields the purpose is to express an intention about a dance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
The papers included in this book were presented at the International Conference “New Technologies, Development and Application,” which was held at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 28th–30th June 2018. The book covers a wide range...
by Susumu Tachi
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have the real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination...
Exploring Robotic Minds
Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In Exploring Robotic Minds: Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena, Jun Tani sets out to answer an essential and tantalizing question: How do our minds work? By providing an overview of his "synthetic neurorobotics" project, Tani reveals how symbols and concepts that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Human Inspired Dexterity in Robotic Manipulation provides up-to-date research and information on how to imitate humans and realize robotic manipulation. Approaches from both software and hardware viewpoints are shown, with sections discussing, and highlighting, case studies that demonstrate how human...
Healthcare Robots
Ethics, Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This study deals with an underexplored area of the emerging technologies debate: robotics in the healthcare setting. The author explores the role of care and develops a value-sensitive ethical framework for the eventual employment of care robots. Highlighting the range of positive and negative aspects...
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Mobile Robots
Introduction and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
As mobile robots become more common in general knowledge and practices, as opposed to simply in research labs, there is an increased need for the introduction and methods to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and its techniques and concepts related to robotics. Simultaneous Localization and...
by Rafael Valencia, Juan Andrade-Cetto
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This monograph introduces a unifying framework for mapping, planning and exploration with mobile robots considering uncertainty, linking such problems with a common SLAM approach, adopting Pose SLAM as the basic state estimation machinery. Pose SLAM is the variant of SLAM where only the robot trajectory...
by Guru Pada Chattopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
When young, we didn’t have cellular devices but communicated through handwritten letter. We walked miles to school, in the sun and the rain. It’s mind-boggling to think how far we’ve come technologically. “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” That familiar warning applies to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2019
The proceedings present selected research papers from the CIAC2019, held in Jiangsu, China on September 20-22, 2019. It covers a wide range of topics including intelligent control, robotics, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, unmanned systems, IoT and machine learning. It includes original...
Automation 2019
Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measurement Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
This book consists of papers presented at AUTOMATION2019, an international conference held in Warsaw from March 27 to 29, 2019. It discusses the radical technological changes occurring due to the INDUSTRY 4.0. To follow these changes, both scientists and engineers have to face the challenge of interdisciplinary...
Smart Electromechanical Systems
Group Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This book presents the latest achievements in the theory and practice of SEMS Group interaction by scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences. It also discusses the development of methods for the design and simulation of SEMS Group interaction based on the principles of safety, flexibility and...
New Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science
Proceedings of The 12th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines (SYROM 2017)
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This volume presents the proceedings of the 12th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines (SYROM 2017), that was held in "Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, November 02-03, 2017. It contains applications of mechanisms in several modern technical...
Turned On
Science, Sex and Robots
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
'Illuminating, witty and written with a wide open mind' Sunday Times
The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the myth of Laodamia in Ancient Greece to twenty-first century shows such as Westworld, robots in human form have captured our imagination,...