As the public gains access to telerobotic instruments previously restricted to scientists and soldiers, questions of mediation, knowledge, and trust take on new significance for everyday life. A lavishly illustrated, nonmathematical guide to robotic mechanical devices. The Development of Anthrobotics is both a comprehensive history of human-like robots, and a technical guide to robot design. You'll find photos and technical descriptions of almost every important advance in robotics in the last 2000 years. Whether providing detailed design analysis of walking machines or comparing the relative strengths of Tungsten and Titanium, Mark Roshiem weaves hard engineering data and clear insightful descriptions into a wonderfully readable book.
Separate chapters are devoted to robot arms, wrists, hands, and legs.
This complex, yet elegant combination of gears, levers, and bearings, has got to be the pinnacle of mankind's robotic mechanical design achievements. Ramblin' Robots Ramblin' Robots is written for readers in about seventh to tenth grades, but younger readers will love the two dozen large photographs of real robots, and older readers will appreciate the concise history of the development of modern robotics. The author's presentation of the past, present, and future of robotics covers the importance of engineering and biological and cognitive sciences in robot development. The main focus is on recent attempts to create independent, mobile robots. The first chapters offer a definition and history of robotics, followed by a survey of some working robots.