Future tech
Subtitle: from personal robots to motorized monocycles
By: by Charles Piddock ; James Lee, consultant.
Contributors: Lee, J. D.
Series: National Geographic investigates; National Geographic investigates
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781426304699; 9781426304682
Subjects: Technological innovations -- Juvenile literature; Technological forecasting -- Juvenile literature; Biomimetics -- Juvenile literature; Nanotechnology -- Juvenile literature; Robotics -- Juvenile literature; Technological innovations; Biomimetics; Nanotechnology; Robotics
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: Explains and illustrates the most current research and technologies that promise to change our lives dramatically in the future, from machines with the ability of independent thought, to cars that drive themselves, to robots that borrow their nature from nature itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 60) and index.
Table of contents: title: Robots with a human face; title: Cyborg dreams; title: Nature tech; title: Thinking small; title: Motoring around; title: Living in the future.