Hallo robot : meet your new workmate and friend /: meet your new workmate and friend. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bennie Mols and Nieske Vergunst.
• Authors: Mols, Bernard Marie, 1969-; Vergunst, Nieske, 1983-
• Contents: 1 A short history of robots, from dolls to androids - Machines as man throughout history - Mechanical dolls: forerunners of the robot - Enter the working humanoid robots - The next step: android robots that look like you - Uncanny valley: the problem with creepy robots 2. How do robots see their surroundings? - Getting to grips with a new environment - Seeing through the eyes of a robot - Training robots to recognise objects - Robots can see what a person cannot see - Feeling with whiskers: sensing the way forward - Robots use electronic ears to listen 3. How does a robot brain work? - A robot must learn to think like a human - Keeping it simple with an insect brain - Machine learning is trial and error - Robots can learn without supervision - The football world cup for robots - Developing robot emotional intelligence 4. Giving humans a helping hand - Robots suck: doing the dirty jobs at home - A robotic arm reaches deep into the supply chain - Joseph Engelberger, father of car factory robots - Co-bots will work alongside people - Coping with variation is Amazon's challenge - Building a robot car 5. Learning to speak to people - The problem with machine talk - SHRDLU! The first experiment in robot conversation - Toilets are hidden: translation problems - A robotic teacher never runs out of patience 6. Robots get emotional - Emotional robots encourage humans to interact with them - A robot can work out how you are feeling - Why am I afraid? Understanding human emotions Help! My robot looks angry - Establishing a bond with a robot 7. Humans need robots and robots need humans - Meet the robot psychologists - Under-promise and over-deliver performance - Silicon Valley utopias vs calm technology - What is the best ratio of robots to humans? - In the rubble: the search and rescue robot - The paradox of robotization 8. Humans need robots and robots need humans - Meet the robot psychologists - Under-promise and over-deliver performance • Silicon Valley utopias vs calm technology - What is the best ratio of robots to humans? - In the rubble: the search and rescue robot - The paradox of robotization 9. Evolution designs the best robots - How robots travel in a bumpy world - Robothand has nature's grip - A two-legged walking robot - The first robot baby - Working out the best path through evolution 10. Swarming robots show the wisdom of crowds - The power of robots working together - A robot swarm without a boss - Goal is mapping a building about to collapse - Predicting how a robot will behave - Robot swarms in the real world - A robotic swarm looks for a queen 11. The importance of building ethical robots - Isaac Asimov's three rules about rogue robots - When robots go wrong - Responsible roboticists are planning for the future - Robots and the UN's development goals - How will robots change the human race? - Killing machines: robots in the military 12. 2100 — A Robot Odyssey - The future of work in a robotic world - Fusing mind and body with soft robotics - And then the smart robot became creative - Was that move really creative? - Will robots really take over the world? Timeline of real and fictional robots Sources and reading material.
• Publisher Details: London : Canbury
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (238 pages)
• Subjects: 303.483; Age groups: adolescents; Robots -- Social aspects; Robots -- Forecasting; Automation -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781912454068
• Related ISBNs: 9781912454051
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