An edition of Robot (2004)

Robot

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An edition of Robot (2004)

Robot

1st American ed.
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Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the advanced intelligence of robots with feelings. Young readers will be amazed to learn all that robots can do: perform delicate surgical operations, clean city sewers, work as museum tour guides, or even battle each other in combat. Find out how humans have created these mechanical minds and bodies. Annotation. Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots from their earliest days through to the advanced intelligence of future robots with feelings. Including machines that perform delicate surgical operations and those that clean our sewers, to those that work as museum tour guides and even battle each other in combat, this book has timeliness of robots and a list of websites make this a complete guide to the world of robotics.

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Publisher
DK Pub.
Language
English
Pages
64

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2004, DK Pub.
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Table of Contents

What is a robot?
Fictional robots
Robot ancestors
Beginnings of real robotics
Robots on the move
Robot senses
Artificial intelligence
Robots in industry
Remote control
Ready-made robots
Battle of the bots
Battle of the bots
Sporting robots
Robots in the lab
Robots in medicine
Helping around the home
Going where it's hard to go
Flying and driving
Underwater robots
Robots in space
Robots and art
Musical robots
Animatronics
Machines with feelings
Teams and swarms
Cyborgs
Humanoids
Into the future
Index.

Edition Notes

"Discover the amazing world of machines, from robots that play chess to systems that think"--Cover.

Published in
New York
Series
DK eyewitness books

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
629.8/92
Library of Congress
TJ211.2 .B75 2004, TJ211.2.B75 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
64 p. :
Number of pages
64

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24947454M
Internet Archive
robotbrid00brid
ISBN 10
0756602548, 075660253X
ISBN 13
9780756602543, 9780756602536
LCCN
2004267082
OCLC/WorldCat
54752060

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