How to grow a robot : developing human friendly social AI I. Whats wrong with artificial intelligence 1. The nature of the problem 2. Commercial robots 3. From research bench to market 4. A tale of brute force 5. Knowledge versus power 6. A little vision and a major breakthrough 7. The rise of the learning machines 8. Deep thought and other oracles 9. Building giant brains 10. Bolting it all together 11. Groundwork synthesis grounding and authenticity 12. The developmental approach grow your own robot 13. Developmental growth in the iCub humanoid robot 14. How developmental robots will develop 15. How AI and AI robots are developing 16. Understanding future technology 17. Futurology and science fiction. Mark Lee considers that the current gains in machine learning and deep learning will not produce robots that can interact effectively with humans. The book then explores how robots can become more human like more general purpose and more social. The book introduces us to the core ideas in Developmental Robotics showing how this new approach can grow robots through (their own) experience rather than building them from design. Original aspects include demonstrating that social robots must be embodied that embodiment will be necessary for general artificial intelligence and that threats from advanced technology are not inevitable but avoidable by involving human social and ethical issues. The material covers a wide scope; from simple robots to advanced AI. This gives an overview of this area and an appreciation of the main advances problems and issues. The scope if the readership is intended to be wide: aimed at a general educated but not specialist audience. For this reason an engineering viewpoint is adopted; technical details and philosophical aspects are minimized thus promoting a practical perspective. The aim is to present the fundamental ideas behind AI and robotics in a clear accessible form appealing to common sense so as to encourage the general reader to build their own informed assessment of these technologies. The hope is to reach a wide public readership reaching anyone who wishes to know what robotics is about where it is going and what its limitations are