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Disaster robotics
This book acts as a guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. After an overview of rescue robotics in the context of emergency informatics, it provides a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four documented deployments of robots…
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The horizons of evolutionary robotics
Evolutionary robotics (ER) aims to apply evolutionary computation techniques to the design of both real and simulated autonomous robots. The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics offers an authoritative overview of this rapidly developing field, presenting state-of-the-art research by leading scholars. The result is a lively, expansive survey that will be of interest to computer scientists, robotic…
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3117.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy;http://www.…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262287166
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) :illustrations.
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Neurotechnology for biomimetic robots
"A Bradford book."An overview of neurotechnology, the engineering of robots based on animals and animal behavior.The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots require…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 636 pages) :illustrations
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A robot ping-pong player :experiment in real-time intelligent control
This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play the game. The …
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) :illustrations.
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Robotics :science and systems VI
"This volume contains the 40 papers presented at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2010, held at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, from June 27 to June 30, 2010"--Preface.Papers from a flagship robotics conference that cover topics ranging from kinematics to human-robot interaction and robot perception.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) :illustrations
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The robots are coming :what every anxious human needs to know
The truth about robots: two experts look beyond the hype, offering a lively and accessible guide to what robots can (and can't) do. There's a lot of hype about robots; some of it is scary and some of it utopian. In this accessible book, two robotics experts reveal the truth about what robots can and can't do, how they work, and what we can reasonably expect their future capabilities to be. It w…
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Tales from a robotic world :how intelligent machines will shape our future
"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often throug…
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The AI business :the commercial uses of artificial intelligence
"What is the bottom line on Artificial Intelligence? The AI Business offers a comprehensive summary of the commercial picture, present and future, for Artificial Intelligence in the computer industry, medicine, the oil industry, and electronic design. AI's brightest and best -- financiers, researchers, and users -- analyze current projects, speculate on trends in factory automation, compare res…
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Cognitive robotics
"A comprehensive overview of the field of cognitive robotics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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