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Robot Rodney Allen Brooks

Robot By Rodney Allen Brooks

Robot by Rodney Allen Brooks


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Summary

Where will technology take us next? What is on the horizon? This book introduces the reader to recent advances in robotics. The author has seen the future: robots will not take over the human race; flesh will instead merge with machine. This is already happening, and this work reveals how.

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Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines by Rodney Allen Brooks

The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Most of us have accepted the idea that the World Wide Web is now an important part of life and here to stay. But where will technology take us next? What is on the horizon? This book introduces the reader to recent advances in robotics. The author Rodney A. Brooks has seen the future: robots will not take over the human race; flesh will instead merge with machine. This is already happening, and this work reveals how.

About Rodney Allen Brooks

Rodney Brooks is Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science. He is also Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corp. This is his first trade book. Brooks appeared in the Errol Morris movie, "Fast, Cheap and out of Control".

Table of Contents

Dances with machines; the quest for an artificial creature; planetary ambassadors; it's 2001 already; machines to live with; where am I; we are special; we are not special; them and us; us as them.

Additional information

GOR001575508
9780713995015
0713995017
Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines by Rodney Allen Brooks
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
2002-05-02
272
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