Description
Book SynopsisAn engaging look at the global impact of robots and robotics, discovering how robot helpers move, sense and make decisions in the service of humans.
Fearsome robots are sometimes shown in sci-fi movies attacking Earth, but in real life, robots are actually helping to save the planet.
Service robots are put to work helping people in all sorts of locations, from hospitals and care homes to factories and restaurants.
Among other amazing feats, robot helpers can produce one complete motor car every 30 seconds, prepare 300 pizzas an hour and reply to questions in 15 languages. In this book, aimed at children aged 8+, readers can meet these robot helpers and many more, then try a quick quiz to find out how much they have learned.
Books in the series:
Eco-Robots
Robot Explorers
Robot Helpers
Super-smart Robots
Table of Contents
- 1: Robot helpers
- 2: Industrial robots
- 3: Home help
- 4: RoboChefs
- 5: Robot arms
- 6: Medical robots
- 7: Pickers and packers
- 8: Let them entertain you
- 9: Rehab robots
- 10: At your service
- 11: Sports bots
- 12: Carebots
- 13: Your robotic future
- 14: Quiz
- 15: Glossary and further information
- 16: Index
