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21. Robotic Bat by Paul Beck | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(2006-06-01)
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Robotic Bat
another wonderful robotic toy
Fun and Informative! |
22. Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi | |
Hardcover: 659
Pages
(2008-09-30)
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A very cohearent covering of a large territory understandable even to a layperson |
23. Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering by Fred G. Martin | |
Paperback: 462
Pages
(2000-12-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description This hands-on, introductory book is based on widely available, custom robotics materials (Handy Board, Interactive C, LEGO Technic). Covers sensors; motors, gears, and mechanism; control; handy board design; construction techniques; DC Motor; and more. Ideal as an introduction to electrical engineering or capstone design. Also appropriate for readers interested in electrical technology robotics. Customer Reviews (6)
A very nice introduction
engineering manual
Taking the next step
Thinking about learning how to build a robot? As someone looking for how to break into robotics without first getting bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering, this book was for me.I got the basics of the two topics covered and was able to dive right into the interesting "what can I do with my robot" scenarios. This book also goes into some detail on inexpensive sensor components out in the electronics market and how to use them in robots.I found this to be a great source of ideas and instructions even when not creating robots using the Handyboard brain. For those looking to dabble, be aware that this is a book best used in conjunction with real, live robot parts. (...)
A good introduction to robotics |
24. Robotic Surgery by Farid Gharagozloo, Farzad Najam | |
Hardcover: 436
Pages
(2008-10-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Look ahead to the future of surgery--with the first comprehensive robotic surgery reference Representing a landmark in the medical literature, Robotic Surgery is the first complete robotic surgery sourcebook. In its pages, you'll explore the new frontiers of robotic and remote technologies, which bring us closer to the goal of achieving the benefits of traditional surgery with the least disruption to the normal functions of the human body. The authors take you through the fundamental principles of robotic surgery and provide clear instruction on their clinical application. FEATURES: |
25. Introduction to Robotics mechanics and Control by John Craig | |
Hardcover: 400
Pages
(1986)
Isbn: 0201103265 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
26. Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications: Artificial Muscles and Sensors | |
Hardcover: 281
Pages
(2007-01-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book covers the fundamental properties, modeling, and demonstration of Electroactive polymers in robotic applications. It particularly details artificial muscles and sensors. In addition, the book discusses the properties and uses in robotics applications of ionic polymer–metal composite actuators and dielectric elastomers. |
27. Robotics: Introduction, Programming, and Projects (2nd Edition) by James L. Fuller | |
Paperback: 489
Pages
(1998-09-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description More descriptive, less mathematical, and easier to read than other books on the subject of robotics. Provides an introduction to robotics—definition, history, description, applications, maintenance, human safety, artificial intelligence, rationale, the future. Investigates the intelligence of the robot and reviews robot sensors. Focuses on software, but devotes considerable attention to the electronics (computer hardware) of the robot. Designed to meet the needs of those with or without extensive technical background. Customer Reviews (1)
The book was in good shape |
28. Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems by Thomas Bräunl | |
Paperback: 542
Pages
(2008-10-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), mobile robot design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and mobile robot applications (mapping, robot soccer, genetic algorithms, neural networks, behavior-based systems, and simulation). The book is written as a text for courses in computer science, computer engineering, IT, electronic engineering, and mechatronics, as well as a guide for robot hobbyists and researchers. Customer Reviews (4)
It's good but not essential
A treasure chest of ideas
Comments to Embedded Robotics
the best book for student |
29. Behavior-Based Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Ronald C. Arkin | |
Hardcover: 491
Pages
(1998-05-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Hard to put down and necessary to know -- Arkin's book provides acomprehensive intellectual history of robots and a thorough compilationof robotic organizational paradigms from reflexes through socialinteraction." -- Chris Brown, Professor of Computer Science, Universityof Rochester This introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligentbehavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey ofthis robotics field. The author presents the tools and techniquescentral to the development of this class of systems in a clear andthorough manner. Following a discussion of the relevant biological andpsychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge andlearning in autonomous robots, behavior-based and hybrid robotarchitectures, modular perception, robot colonies, and future trends inrobot intelligence. The text throughout refers to actual implemented robots and includesmany pictures and descriptions of hardware, making it clear that theseare not abstract simulations, but real machines capable of perception,cognition, and action. Customer Reviews (6)
Settling the bases.
Best to learn new robotic concept
Overpriced and explains the obvious
Possibly the best single text on behaviour-based robotics I use this book as a reference, to help me with my own research into control architectures. Arkin is a leader in this field. Many (most!) of the recent research papers that I've seen cite this book. I think it should be on your bookshelf if you're a researcher or practitioner of AI.
Excellent at nothing (ok, I guess the cover is nice) |
30. Robotics (Life in the Future) by Mark Beyer | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2002-09)
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31. Robotics (Cool Science) by Helena Domaine | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2006-01)
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Customer Reviews (1)
Great Intro to Robotics |
32. The Lego Mindstorms NXT Zoo! An Unofficial, Kid-Friendly Guide to Building Robotic Animals with the Lego Mindstorms NXT by Fay Rhodes | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2008-02-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description The first part of the book introduces you to the NXT kit and reviews the parts you'll need in order to begin building. Next, you'll learn how to program with the NXT-G programming language, including how to make miniprograms called My Blocks that you can use to build larger programs. Finally, you'll learn how to build each robot and program it to act like its real animal cousins. Learn to build and program the following robots: Troubleshooting tips help you avoid problems like misarranged gears and incorrect programming, while a list of Internet resources is included to help guide you in further exploration with the NXT. Teachers and home educators will appreciate an appendix with helpful suggestions for using the models in the classroom. The models in this book have been tested repeatedly -- and built successfully -- by novice builders, so all you have to do is follow the directions and watch them go. Now, let the building begin! (Note: These specific models require additional NXT/TECHNIC parts. Check out the part lists at thenxtzoo(DOT)com.) Customer Reviews (17)
Misleading title,description - This is for NXT Educational Version
Good book. . . only if you have the parts
Great book filled with creative ways to learn with LEGO MINDSTORMS
Fantastic robots, easy to use instructions
Requires additional parts to build most of the designs |
33. Space Invaders: How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System by Michel van Pelt | |
Hardcover: 314
Pages
(2006-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why -- the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine when humans are involved. But robotic missions deserve a respectful and detailed history and analysis of their own, and this book provides it. Focusing on future modern spacecraft, Michel van Pelt explains the exciting life of unmanned space explorers, making the technology, design, development, operation and results of modern space probe missions understandable by lay readers. Instead of describing one specific spacecraft or mission, Michel van Pelt offers a "behind the scenes" look at the life of a space probe: from its first conceptual design to the analysis of the scientific data returned by the spacecraft. While most popular books on space concentrate on manned spaceflight, this book shows that unmanned space exploration is just as exciting. It demonstrates to the reader just what it takes to send a robotic spacecraft to another planet and what fascinating insight and knowledge we have gained from these probes. **Offers an insight into the life of a space probe from concept through design to return and analysis of scientific data. **Explains what it takes to send a robotic space probe to another planet. **Demonstrates that unmanned space exploration can be as exciting as manned exploration. **Provides the reader with a view of how the fascinating images and knowledge are obtained from these probes. **Focuses on modern spacecraft and the future, rather than the history of past projects Customer Reviews (2)
An enyoyable read
The long arms of Man |
34. How to Build a Prize-winning Robot (Robotics) by Joel Chaffee | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2011-01-15)
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35. Introduction to Robotics in CIM Systems (5th Edition) by James A. Rehg | |
Hardcover: 510
Pages
(2002-03-18)
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Robotics Text |
36. Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World by Douglas Mulhall | |
Hardcover: 390
Pages
(2002-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Our Molecular Future reveals a striking new possibility: We are on the verge of being able to protect ourselves from nature’s worst attacks. Tools such as carbon nanotubes may help us cope in ways that until now have been described as science fiction. If we succeed, we might solve a troubling question about scientific research: Why risk it? Why risk powerful new technologies that may destroy us? With compelling evidence, Douglas Mulhall shows that the answers to such questions may be found by focusing on what the environment does to us, rather than only what we do to the environment. His book shows where our technologies might be heading, what may stop us from getting there, and how to use the benefits to minimize the downsides. The good news is that we may enter a future that's so fantastic, it's unbelievable. The bad news is that many of us don't believe it, and so we may not be ready to cope. By revealing the threads that tie our fate to new technologies, this book helps us get ready. First, we have to ask the right questions. Mulhall emphasizes that this book defines those questions, rather than pretending to have quick or detailed answers. Here are examples: Molecular technologies aren’t just confined to a few university think tanks. Nor are they confined to an elite among the superpowers, big business, or government. Their roots are embedded in the fabric of our industries, research institutes, and military. They are found in wealthy and poor nations alike. The foundations for these technologies are so pervasive that it’s hard to describe them without starting an encyclopedia. Our Molecular Future condenses this knowledge and gives us broad overviews of who’s doing what, where. By so doing, the book shows us why these technologies pose such deep challenges to conventional thinking about business and environment. Yet, how vulnerable is this technological juggernaut to being thrown backward or blasted down the wrong path by nature’s violent attacks? In ninety seconds, the Great Kanto Earthquake annihilated Japan’s centralized economy in 1923. It was so severe that the country was in no shape to weather the Great Depression. Such instability helped open the door for a military government. After the military took over, war in Southeast Asia—and then the Pacific—broke out. Might this recur today? What about similar such risks in America? What if the largest earthquake in America’s history was to hit again? Surprisingly, it didn’t occur in San Francisco, or on the quake-prone West Coast. Our Molecular Future reveals the location and the implications. Property loss is increasing worldwide, due to unrestricted development in risky hurricane and earthquake zones. Perversely, this can actually improve economic conditions for some sectors in the short term, by fueling construction booms after disasters. Such short-term rebounds are often generated by insurance settlements. Yet underneath, a cancer grows. This foundation for economic stability—insurance—is collapsing. Our Molecular Future reveals the depth of the situation. To inoculate ourselves against nature’s occasional tantrums, and avoid collapse of the insurance industry, we may have to construct powerful molecular defenses. Yet, these defenses themselves may threaten our existence, due to their potential for abuse. Some say that the risks outweigh the potential gains. So, if it’s such a risk, why go there? Evidence suggests there may be no alternative. Our Molecular Future explains why. By tracing disruptions of the past and advances of the present through to technologies of the future, it becomes more than a book: it's a whole new field of study; a multifaceted approach to our past, our present, and our potential futures. Because of this, the book appeals to a wide range of readers. Read it if you are... ...striving to understand the molecular world that we may soon live in ...wondering about your job prospects or health care in an age of disruptive technologies ...looking for ways to cope with climate extremes or natural disasters The book also has special relevance if you’re one of these individuals: A business or economics student: Here are ideas about what startups might flourish in a molecular economy. "Genetic computing" may make most manufacturing processes and patents obsolete.Moreover, new industries might emerge from our capacities to cope with natural hazards. A lecturer or student in environment, natural science, and ethics. The book is a valuable supplement to course materials: --For environment, it identifies challenges to the Precautionary Principle and the doctrine of sustainable development. --For natural science, it summarizes new discoveries about naturally occurring climate changes and ecological disruptions that are changing our views about the stability of the natural world. --For scientific ethics, it gives an overview of the ethical questions associated with development of powerful new tools. An executive positioning your company for the approaching molecular era. Here is information about startups that might flourish in a molecular economy. An insurer or corporate manager who plans disaster recovery strategies. This summarizes natural risks and technologies that may alter the way that businesses prepare for them. A health care provider. Research into nanobacteria and robotic surgery may alter the way we treat disease. A scientist confronted by environmental opposition to your technologies: Here's one way out of the impasse between the life sciences and environmentalists. An environmentalist who forecasts how technology might alter the ecology: Molecular technologies and natural changes may upend the Precautionary Principle and the doctrine of sustainable development. The book also has an extensive index and endnotes, with links to authoritative Web sites. Customer Reviews (8)
More like a fancy futuristic trip than an informative tome
Prophets of Reality
Great Book about Nanotechnology.
Get up to speed on nanotechnology and your future
Lets use these technologies to save our future The author has done his research and has a large source of information to draw from.This book gives the reader a good overview of real scientific advancements as well as other insights from prominent leaders and theorists in these fields.There are ample notes and anecdotes to give the reader the option to pursue more detailed information on the topics. A few parts of the book drag due to some repetitiveness and some of the discussions don't appear to have a firm scientific base and don't seem too plausible, especially if you have decent scientific knowledge in the particular subject.If you are a scientist or engineer with some expertise in the fields you may find that some theories lack a firm foundation.However one theme that comes with the author's optimism is that throughout history, even the most prominent experts have been proven wrong through natural progressions and even breakthroughs! This work is not incredibly deep or profound though quite entertaining and at times it appears to feel more like a novel than a documentary of the future.It is suitable for readers of all walks of life. ... Read more |
37. Fundamentals of Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering) by Marco Ceccarelli | |
Paperback: 312
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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38. Duty-Split Approach in Robotic Surgery (Robotics Research and Technology) by Rinaldo C. Michelini, Silvia Frumento, Roberto P. Razzoli | |
Paperback: 57
Pages
(2010-07)
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flat, sterile, tenuous, and whispering unknown |
39. Robotics in Surgery: History, Current And Future Applications | |
Hardcover: 317
Pages
(2006-08-02)
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40. Introduction to Robotics by Saeed Niku | |
Hardcover: 480
Pages
(2010-09-22)
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