In today's wired world, robots are everywhere, from movies, in space, as part of computer games--maybe even walking among us. This is a look at their rise: how they've developed over time, from early sketches to terrifying battlebots and factory operatives, to the latest AIs running free from their workshops. Presented chronologically, this robot history explores landmark robots that have captured the imagination, including creations from popular...

A directory for those seeking information on amateur and educational robotics, containing over 2000 listings of robot suppliers, including mail order and local area businesses, and containing resources for both common and hard-to-find parts and supplies.

"Did you know that robots play a very large role in the lives of humans? Discover the new ways that scientists hope to use robotics in the future in this high-interest book."--

Explores how robots function and are made, looking at their computing components and how engineers design them with specific capabilities.

Includes educational but fun projects, from building basic motorized platforms to giving a machine a brain--teaching it to walk and talk and obey commands.

"This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding...

Robotics is one of the most exciting career fields of the twenty-first century. This stimulating volume introduces readers to robotics makerspaces and describes how student makerspace experiences and robotics competitions can lead to a career in robotics. It captures the breadth of the robotics industry, describing recent robotics research in home control, medicine, industry, and the military and outlines the skills, education, and degrees required

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"A beginner's guide to building and coding robots with the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. Each chapter teaches progressively complex lessons, from wireless control to line following, through detailed instructions and projects"--

A young AI prodigy gets rejected from the world-renowned robotics lab and does what any rational teenager would do steal a van and drive across the country to Northern Minnesota to track down the Professor who rejected him.

Describes advances in robot development, from eighteenth-century automatons and Tesla's first remote control boat to contemporary robotic vacuums and experimental robotic cars, and provides background information.