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Androids. --- Robots. --- Automata --- Automatons --- Robotics --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- Humanoid robots --- Humanoids (Androids) --- Robots --- Virtual humans (Artificial intelligence)

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Household Service Robotics is a collection of the latest technological advances in household service robotics in five main areas: robot systems, manipulation, navigation, object recognition, and human-robot interaction. The book enables readers to understand development s and apply them to their own working areas, including: Robotic technologies for assisted living and elderly careDomestic cleaning automationHousehold surveillanceGuiding systems for public spaces Service robotics is a highly multidisciplinary field, requiring a holistic approach. This handbook provides insights to the disc

Personal robotics. --- Robots. --- Home automation. --- Dwellings --- Smart homes --- Electronic control --- Household electronics --- Intelligent buildings --- Automata --- Automatons --- Robotics --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- Personal robots --- Automation

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Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modelling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure. No other publication covers the three fundamental issues of robotics: modelling, identification and control. It covers the development of various mathematical models required for the control and simulation of robots.·World class authority·Unique range of coverage not available in any other book·Provides a complete course on robotic control at an undergraduate and graduate level

Dynamics. --- Robots. --- Robots --Mathematical models. Robots --Dynamics. Robots --Control systems. --- Robots --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mathematical models --- Dynamics --- Control systems --- Mathematical models. --- Control systems. --- Robot control --- Automata --- Automatons --- Robotics --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Mecha (Vehicles)

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Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society--and ethics--change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration. Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.

Robotics --- Robots --- Human factors --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- Design and construction --- E-books --- Automata --- Automatons --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Human factors in robotics --- Human engineering --- Human factors. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Design and construction. --- Robotics - Human factors --- Robotics - Moral and ethical aspects --- Robotics - Social aspects --- Robots - Design and construction

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Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as collaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our social characteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. Breazeal defines the key components of social intelligence for these machines and offers a framework and set of design issues for their realization. Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed named Kismet. Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from the scientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classical animation. This blending of science, engineering, and art creates a lifelike quality that encourages people to treat Kismet as a social creature rather than just a machine. The book includes a CD-ROM that shows Kismet in action.

Human-machine systems. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Systèmes homme-machine --- Intelligence artificielle --- Robots --- Design and construction. --- Systèmes homme-machine --- Human operators (Systems engineering) --- Human subsystems (Systems engineering) --- Man-machine control systems --- Man-machine systems --- Operator-machine systems --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Automata --- Automatons --- Engineering systems --- Human engineering --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Robotics --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- Human-machine systems --- Artificial intelligence --- Design and construction --- E-books --- COMPUTER SCIENCE/Robotics & Agents