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Robots for Kids: Exploring New Tech...
by Allison Druin (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers)
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Within the sphere of children's learning and play, the concept of robot and the application of actual robots are undergoing a dramatic expansion. Here the term "robot" refers to a growing range of interactive devices-including toys, pets, assistants to the disabled, and overtly educational tools-which are being used in ways that are expected to have profound and beneficial effects on how our children develop and grow.
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Mind Children: The Future of Robot...
by Hans P. Moravec (Harvard University Press)
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Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence is an insightful book on the future of artificial intelligence.
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Robot : Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
by Hans P. Moravec (Oxford University Press)
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(Paperback - 240 pages) From Book News, Inc.
"The founder of the robotics program at Carnegie Mellon University proclaims that artificial intelligence and robotics are on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough, and proposes a timeline in which robots will meet and then exceed human intelligence as soon as 2050. He predicts first massive unemployment as robots take all the jobs, then an eon of milk and honey as they do all the work, and finally...
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The Robot in the Garden (Leonardo Books)
by Ken Goldberg, Roger Manila, Pam Grant Ryan (MIT Press)
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Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influential technologies, the telescope, telephone, and television, were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots, remotely controlled robots, facilitate action at a distance. Specialists use telerobots to explore actively environments such as Mars, the Titanic, and Chernobyl. Military personnel increasingly...
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BattleBots®: The Official Guide
by Mark Clarkson (McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media)
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View the metal-crunching destruction from the front lines with this fully authorized guide to one of todays hottest TV shows. Browse through photographs of every major BattleBot--including construction diagrams--and get details on weight, speed, and weapon type. Meet the people behind the crowd-pleasing, spark-flying robot demolition and get step-by-step instructions for building your own fierce fighting machine. Informative and entertaining, this book kicks BOT!
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Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species
by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio (MIT Press)
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Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present the next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than one hundred robots is an account of the little-known, yet vitally important scientific competition to build an autonomous robot...
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
by Rodney Brooks (Random House)
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Flesh and Machines explores the startlingly reciprocal connection between humans and their technological brethren, and explains how this relationship is being redefined as humans develop increasingly complex machines.
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Creation: Life and How to Make It
by Steve Grand (Harvard University Press)
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Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures(R), a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick--Steve Grand proposes an answer.
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