Robotics
A Very Short Introduction
$27.97
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2012
Summary
Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s, when it was widely…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199695980 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199695989 |
| Author: | Alan Winfield |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 113mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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About The Author
Alan Winfield
Alan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He conducts research in swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence, and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science and technology. He holds an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship with the theme Intelligent Robotsin Science and Society, and blogs about robots, open science and related topics.
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