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Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

Autor Alan Winfield

Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
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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 ...

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  • Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • ISBN13 9780199695980
  • ISBN10 0199695989
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 144
  • Colección Very Short Introductions #330
  • Año de Edición 2012
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Paperback

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Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

Autor Alan Winfield

Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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 ...

11,00€
No disponible, consulte disponibilidad
Envío gratis a partir de 19€
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  • 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

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.

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