Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2018
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781465473196, 146547319X :, 146547319X, 9781465473196
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Includes index
What is a robot? -- Early robots -- Famous robot engineers -- Robots around the world -- Types of robot -- Robots at work -- Robots at home -- Medical robots -- Security robots -- Fun with robots -- Robots in space -- A day with robots -- Building a robot -- Coding a robot -- Swarm robots -- Drones -- Robot explorers -- Animal robots -- Animatronics -- Soft robotics -- Senses -- Humanoids -- What is artificial intelligence? -- Superhumans -- Robot friends -- Interview with ... -- Future of robotics -- Robot facts and figures
Explores how robots function and are made, looking at their computing components and how engineers design them with specific capabilities
IG850L