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An underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists automating their work in this true story of the first time that machines came for human jobs-setting the stage for the threat of big tech today.

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In this book, we explore how organizations and their product and service developers can prepare their businesses to incorporate three emerging technology trends: Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Blockchain. We will cover the component resources, i.e., business, technical and legal needed to empower an organization to exploit them now and in the future.

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Many industries use control systems to insure that parameters such as temperature or altitude behave in a desirable way over time. This book offers an alternative failure detection approach that addresses two of the fundamental problems in the safe and efficient operation of modern control systems: failure detection and model identification.

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A blueprint for the design of sociable robots, as well as the story of Kismet, a nascent example.

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A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and marine modalities.

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The Performance Learning Platform (PLP) Lab Book contains instrumentation and control best practices on all the technologies included in the platform and much more, as well as over 20 hands-on exercises.

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Twenty-five of the most important scientific minds gather for an unparalleled round-table examination about AI and what it means for our future.

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A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

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State-of-the-art robotics research on topics including manipulation, locomotion, machine learning, localization, visual SLAM, haptics, and biologically inspired design.

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An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work.

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Robots: A Reference Handbook differs from most other books on robotics in the variety of resources that it provides to readers of all ages.

Robots: A Reference Handbook teaches readers about a wide variety of robots.

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In almost all depictions of the future, one technology plays a prominent role - the robot. Science fiction movies and stories tell us that, in the not so distant future, robots - from Robbie the Robot to C3PO to the Terminator - will be everywhere, taking care of every human need.

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"Using neuronal network models of behavioral physiology and neuroethology in a wide variety of animal models, this text will explore the development of autonomous robotic systems"--

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"Using the non-human construct of the cyborg, this book address the problems inherent in difference and oppression, like gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, human exceptionalism and global borders"--

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The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanisms.

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"An intimate understanding of what robots are for the average popular science reader, with a focus dispelling fears and showcasing how humans might interact with robots"--

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"An intimate understanding of what robots are for the average popular science reader, with a focus dispelling fears and showcasing how humans might interact with robots"--

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The first textbook on micron-scale mobile robotics, introducing the fundamentals of design, analysis, fabrication, and control, and drawing on case studies of existing approaches.

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A text that makes the mathematical underpinnings of robot motion accessible and relates low-level details of implementation to high-level algorithmic concepts.