Robotics
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Alan Winfield
Series: Very short introductions -- 330; Very short introductions -- 330.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780199695980
Subjects: Roboter; Robotics
Description: Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Winfield considers how robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, and how robots can be both ordinary and quite remarkable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (135-137) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a robot?; title: What robots do now; title: Biological robotics; title: Humanoid and android robots; title: Robot swarms, evolution, and symbiosis; title: Robotic futures.