Robots
What Everyone Needs to Know®
$49.52
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2022
Summary
A concise, accessible introduction to robots, what they can do, what they can’t, and what their increasing encroachment into our lives might mean for us.
Since the turn of the millennium, a quiet revolution has been underway. Millions of autonomous robots with some level of intelligence are now in domestic use, mainly as vacuum cleaners. Driverless cars—which are nothing less than autonomous robots—are starting to appear on our streets. There is a huge effort underway in industry and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198845393 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198845391 |
| Author: | Phil Husbands |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 141mm x 15mm |
| Series: | What Everyone Needs To Know® |
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The book is accessible, and readers can expect to learn much from it. Husbands has given us a historically informed introduction to robotics, rooted in technological reality and dismissing futuristic hype. * Simon Balle, Metascience *the book is accessible, and readers can expect to learn much from it. Husbands has given us a historically informed introduction to robotics, rooted in technological reality and dismissing futuristic hype. * Simon Balle, Metascience *
About The Author
Phil Husbands
Phil Husbands is Research Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex. He has been a leading researcher in AI, Robotics and Artificial Life for more than 30 years. He is one of the originators of the field of evolutionary robotics, was founding co-director of the Sussex Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and has worked extensively with industry. His research is wide ranging but centres on adaptive systems in robotics, AI and neuroscience. He is also a historian of AI and cybernetics.
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