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

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Laura Forlano • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied. This introduction to cyborg ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Klaus Hoeyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesWhy healthcare cannot--and should not--become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing. In contemporary healthca...

• Author(s): Ruth Aylett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThe 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 h...

• 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...