Search results for “[Subject: technology-robotics]”

• Author(s): Patricia A. Vargas | Ezequiel A. Di Paolo | Inman Harvey • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: RoboticsAn authoritative overview of current research in this exciting interdisciplinary f...

• Author(s): Thomas B. Sheridan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common...

• Author(s): John M. Jordan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: RoboticsAbout the Book An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of t...

• Author(s): Lisa Nocks • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: RoboticsIn almost all depictions of the future, one technology plays a prominent role - the robot. Science fiction movies and stories tell us that,...

• Author(s): Illah Reza Nourbakhsh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.With robot...

• Author(s): Lynette Jones • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays....

• Author(s): Jeff Trinkle | Yoky Matsuoka | Jose A. Castellanos • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsState-of-the-art robotics research on topics including manipulation, locomotion, machine learning, localization...

• Author(s): John Long • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoboticsWhat happens when we let robots play the game of life?BR> The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past -...

• Author(s): Etienne Burdet • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA synthesis of biomechanics and neural control that draws on recent advances in robotics to address control problems solved by the human sensor...

• Author(s): Metin Sitti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThe first textbook on micron-scale mobile robotics, introducing the fundamentals of design, analysis, fabrication, and control, and drawing on...

• Author(s): P. W. Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Military Science"[Singer's] enthusiasm becomes infectious . . . Wired for War is a book of its time: this is strategy for the Facebook generation." -...

• Author(s): Ken Goldberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn interdisciplinary collection of essays on telepistemology--the study of knowledge acquired at a distance.The Robot in the Garden initiates a...

• Author(s): Kevin A. Gluck • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralExperts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new task...

• Author(s): Linda Weiss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Government & BusinessFor more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that...

• Author(s): John Johnston • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: RoboticsAn account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes ...

• Author(s): David Hakken • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialArguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethi...

• Author(s): William B. Bonvillian | Peter L. Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyHow to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector b...

• Author(s): Jon Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the me...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Darren Wershler-Henry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Gabrielle Hecht | Michel Callon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceHow it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) becam...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Barry R. Posen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceBarry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collec...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Rolf Pfeifer | Josh Bongard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralAn exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence i...

• Author(s): Roland Siegwart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: RoboticsThe second edition of a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanis...

• Author(s): Howie Choset • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: RoboticsA text that makes the mathematical underpinnings of robot motion accessible and relates low-level details of implementation to high-level alg...

• Author(s): Maja J. Mataric • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA broadly accessible introduction to robotics that spans the most basic concepts and the most novel applications; for stu...