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This volume includes a timeline of important events, a glossary of terms, descriptions and statistics of robot labs and companies around the world, and a helpful bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further research.

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Concise and direct to the point, Nocks' technography on the robot offers a rich overview of the systems we understand as robotic. It summarizes the 30-some-year-long history of a plethora of ideas, experiments, and implementations that have found their places in our everyday lives. Choice What distinguishes this book from others is its attempt to cover the long history of robots, as well as to take the time to explain how many of the technologies actually work. -- Peter Asaro Isis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Timeline
Part I: Ancestors
1. Between Ritual, Myth, and Machine: Robot Ancestors
2. Automata to Automation
Part II: The Early Years
3. Into the Factory: The First Robots
4. Smarter Machines: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Part III: Growth of the Field
5. Getting Around: Perception, Locomotion, and Power
6. Robots among Us: The Latest Developments
Conclusion
Glossary of Terms
Further Reading
Index

The Robot The Life Story of a Technology

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 29 December 2008
      ISBN-13 9780801890710
      978-0801890710
      ISBN-10 0801890713
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      Robotics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume includes a timeline of important events, a glossary of terms, descriptions and statistics of robot labs and companies around the world, and a helpful bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further research.

      Trade Review
      Concise and direct to the point, Nocks' technography on the robot offers a rich overview of the systems we understand as robotic. It summarizes the 30-some-year-long history of a plethora of ideas, experiments, and implementations that have found their places in our everyday lives. Choice What distinguishes this book from others is its attempt to cover the long history of robots, as well as to take the time to explain how many of the technologies actually work. -- Peter Asaro Isis

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Timeline
      Part I: Ancestors
      1. Between Ritual, Myth, and Machine: Robot Ancestors
      2. Automata to Automation
      Part II: The Early Years
      3. Into the Factory: The First Robots
      4. Smarter Machines: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
      Part III: Growth of the Field
      5. Getting Around: Perception, Locomotion, and Power
      6. Robots among Us: The Latest Developments
      Conclusion
      Glossary of Terms
      Further Reading
      Index

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