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• 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): 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): 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): David J. Gunkel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights ...

• Author(s): Russell L. Andersson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis tour de force in experimental robotics describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.This tour de force...

• Author(s): Mark Coeckelbergh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Business EthicsA guide to the ethical questions that arise from our use of industrial robots, robot companions, self-driving cars, and other robotic dev...

• 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): 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): Joseph E. Aoun • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherA fresh look at a "robot-proof" education in the new age of generative AI. In 2017, Robot-Proof, the first edition, foresaw the ad...

• Author(s): Robin R. Murphy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and mari...

• Author(s): Karel Capek • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: European - GeneralA new translation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.--which famously coined the term "robot"--and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's ...

• Author(s): Rodney A. Brooks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Expert SystemsUntil the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of percept...

• Author(s): Dario Floreano | Claudio Mattiussi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspir...

• 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): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Christof Koch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the ...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Carl Andre | James Meyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: American - GeneralStatements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism. Just as Carl Andre's...

• Author(s): Siu-Cheung Kong • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computers & TechnologyA guide to computational thinking education, with a focus on artificial intelligence literacy and the integration of computing a...