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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robotsby Gareth BranwynISBN 0789729717 (0-7897-2971-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Battle Angel Alitaby Yukito KishiroISBN 1569319456 (1-56931-945-6)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle Angel Alita'Book summary:In the first volume of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita, Daisuke Ido discovers a badly damaged cyborg in the trash heap beneath the floating city of Tiphares, which he rebuilds and names Alita. She has no memory of her previous life, but when she is drawn into a battle with the monster Makaku, Alita realizes that she must uncover the dark secrets of her past.
Kishiro's story is much more than a science-fiction adventure. Woven into the violent, roller-coaster plot is a strand of philosophical speculation. Battle Angel Alita takes us to a world where technology blurs the boundaries between human and machine, begging the question "What makes us who we are?" [via]
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Bovedas De Aceroby Isaac AsimovISBN 8427005385 (84-270-0538-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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The Buddha in the Robot: A Robot Engineer's Thoughts on Science and Religionby Masahiro Mori, Charles S. TerryISBN 4333010020 (4-333-01002-0)
Softcover, Kosei Publishing Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buddha in the Robot: A Robot Engineer's Thoughts on Science and Religion'Book summary:Dr. Mori explores Buddhism through his perspective as a robot engineer. He even postulates that robots have the buddha-nature. He confronts Buddhist themes such as the notion of ego as if they were engineering problems and comes to surprisingly clear resolutions.
Along the way, he poses many interesting questions that perhaps only a robot engineer would think of. Why do we have two nostrils -- not just one? Why don't we have "earlids" similar to eyelids? His inquiries are highly engaging. [via]
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Build Your Own Robot!by Karl LuntISBN 1568811020 (1-56881-102-0)
Softcover, A K Peters Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Build Your Own Robot!'Book summary:This book, a compilation of articles from Karl Lunt's long-running column for Nuts & Volts magazine, is a must-read for all beginner and intermediate-level robotics enthusiasts. Written in a friendly, straightforward manner, it contains entertaining anecdotes as well as practical advice and instruction. The author's stories about his various robotics projects will inspire you to try them yourself; and he shares his tips and code to help you. Possible projects range from transforming a TV remote control into a robot controller to building a robot from a drink cooler. You'll want to build them all; the author's enthusiasm for robotics is contagious! [via]
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Build Your Own Working Robotby David L. HeisermanISBN 0830627812 (0-8306-2781-2)
Softcover, Tab Books
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Building Bots: Designing and Building Warrior Robotsby William GurstelleISBN 1556524595 (1-55652-459-5)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Building Robot Drive Trainsby Dennis Clark, Michael OwingsISBN 0071408509 (0-07-140850-9)
Softcover, Tab Books
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Caves of Steelby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293400 (0-553-29340-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caves of Steel'Book summary:A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim! [via]
Competitive Mindstorms: A Complete Guide to Robotic Sumo Using Lego Mindstormsby David PerdueISBN 1590593758 (1-59059-375-8)
Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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The Complete Handbook of Roboticsby Edward L. SaffordISBN 0830610715 (0-8306-1071-5)
Softcover, Tab Books
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The Cyberiad; Fables for the Cybernetic Ageby Stanislaw LemISBN 081649164X (0-8164-9164-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstormsby Dave Baum, Rodd ZurcherISBN 1893115097 (1-893115-09-7)
Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robotsby Scott PrestonISBN 1590595564 (1-59059-556-4)
Hardcover, Apress
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Designing Sociable Robotsby Cynthia L. BreazealISBN 0262025108 (0-262-02510-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Lifeby Gaby WoodISBN 1400031583 (1-4000-3158-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Embodied Artificial Intelligenceby Luc Steels, Rolf Pfeifer, FUMIYA IIDA, Yasuo KuniyoshiISBN 354022484X (3-540-22484-X)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embodied Artificial Intelligence'Book summary:Originating from a Dagstuhl seminar, the collection of papers presented in this book constitutes on the one hand a representative state-of-the-art survey of embodied artificial intelligence, and on the other hand the papers identify the important research trends and directions in the field. Following an introductory overview, the 23 papers are organized into topical sections on - philosophical and conceptual issues - information, dynamics, and morphology - principles of embodiment for real-world applications - developmental approaches - artificial evolution and self-reconfiguration [via]
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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Ageby Bill McKibbenISBN 0805075194 (0-8050-7519-4)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age'Book summary:From the bestselling author of The End of Nature comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are[via]
We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime in the next few years, a scientist will reprogram a human egg or sperm cell, spawning a genetic change that could be passed down into eternity. We are sleepwalking toward the future, argues Bill McKibben, and its time to open our eyes.
In The End of Nature, nearly fifteen years ago, McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alterand endangerour environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnologyall of which we are approaching with astonishing speedand shows that each threatens to take us past a point of no return. We now stand at a critical threshold, poised between the human past and a post-human future.
Ultimately, McKibben offers a celebration of what it means to be human, and a warning that we risk the loss of all meaning if we step across the threshold. His wise and eloquent book argues that we cannot forever grow in reach and powerthat we must at last learn how to say, Enough.More editions of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age:
Extreme Mindstorms: An Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstormsby Dave Baum, Ralph Hempel, Michael Gasperi, Luis VillaISBN 1893115844 (1-893115-84-4)
Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Usby Rodney A. BrooksISBN 037572527X (0-375-72527-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Changes Usby Rodney Allen BrooksISBN 0375420797 (0-375-42079-7)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Changes Us'Book summary:The world of HAL and Data, of sentient machines, is fast approaching. Indeed, in some ways it has already arrived, as humans incorporate bionic technology and as humanlike machines increasingly take on the work of humans.
Rodney Brooks, a professor of engineering at MIT, has been involved in this transformation for decades. He has helped design robots that reason, at least after a fashion. The machines are as yet primitive, but, Brooks writes, in five years the boundary between what is now fantasy and fact will be breached, and intelligent machines will come into their own. With them will come a host of ethical problems, as we wrestle with the implications of Asimov's laws of robotics and with the very real possibility that we have created a new kind of slave. There's no way of getting around this future, it would seem, and, adds Brooks, our species will change in the bargain: "With all these trends we will become a merger between flesh and machines."
Antitechnologists may shudder at the story line, but readers interested in the gee-whiz possibilities of the digital age will be fascinated by Brooks's vision of what is and what will be. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sportsby Brad StoneISBN 0743229517 (0-7432-2951-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports'Book summary:Newsweek reporter Brad Stone set out to chronicle the brief history of robotic sports, a genre peopled by a disparate range of mechanical compulsives spanning the education-driven idealism of Segway Human Transporter inventor Dean Kamen to the willfully enigmatic Mark Pauline's anarchic Survival Research Laboratories. But Stone's straightforward reporting quickly focuses on the tormented tale of Parkinson's afflicted, former ILM animator Marc Thorpe and his struggles to transform his obsession with battling machines into bona fide sport, efforts we learn have directly spawned such cult cable TV fare as Robot Wars, Battle Bots, and Robotica and made unlikely pop-culture heroes of its motley, proud band of mechanized warrior engineers. Thorpe's effusive mix of enthusiasm and naivete are at once his salvation and downfall, especially after he finds himself yoked financially with Priority Records founder Steve Plotnicki, an executive the author portrays as never meeting a business partner he didn't like to sue, and repeatedly.
Thus framed, what emerges is as much cautionary tale about the seemingly limitless bounds of human pettiness and the nettlesome business of copyrighting, branding, and marketing mass-media entertainment as it is hagiography of the gearheads and their beloved gladiators. Lawyers and lawsuits seem to dominate every third page, often overshadowing the exploits of legendary 'bots such as Biohazard and Blendo, and increasingly making the aloofness of gearhead godfathers Pauline and Kamen seem like so much common sense. --Jerry McCulley [via]
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Ghost in the Shellby Masamune Shirow, Frederik L. Schodt, Toren SmithISBN 1593072287 (1-59307-228-7)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost in the Shell'Book summary:From acclaimed Japanese writer/artists Masamune Shirow, the creator of Appleseed, Orion, and Dominion: Tank Police comes a new dystopian tale of tough-talking cyborgs, political intrigues, and the kind of actions best left covert! The beautiful and deadly Major Kusanagi and her crack team of internal operatives are sent to investigate a government factory with questionable labor practices. As it turns out, their labor practices aren't the only thing to be questioned when the major and her team are met by a most unwelcoming welcome wagon! [via]
Gordon McComb's Gadgeteer's Goldmine!: 55 Space-Age Projectsby Gordon McCombISBN 0830683607 (0-8306-8360-7)
Hardcover, Tab Books
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Gordon McComb's Gadgeteers Goldby Gordon McCombISBN 083063360X (0-8306-3360-X)
Softcover, Tab Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gordon McComb's Gadgeteers Gold'Book summary:Gordon McComb's Gadgeteer's Goldmine is one of the most exciting, well-rounded collections of electronic projects available anywhere, featuring experiments in everything from magnetic levitation and lasers to high-tech surveillance and digital commuications. Hobbyists and garage-shop tinkerers will find instructions for building such useful items as a fiberoptic communications link, portable He-Ne laser pistol, laser alarm system, ultrasonic pest deterrent, solar batter recharger, wireless sound transimitter. IBM PC control interface, and many others. [via]
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Gurps Robots: Bold Experiments, Faithful Servants, Soulless Killersby David PulverISBN 1556342330 (1-55634-233-0)
Softcover, Psi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gurps Robots: Bold Experiments, Faithful Servants, Soulless Killers'Book summary:GURPS Robots contains detailed rules for designing, building, and playing robots - from the tiniest nanobots to the mightiest megabots. You can create cyborgs, androids, and even biomorphs - deadly fluid-metal machines that can take any shape.
The advanced design rules are compatible with GURPS Vehicles, 2nd Edition. Choose everything from the frames to weapons to the tiniest accessories!
Also included are rules for robots as player characters; artificial intelligences and battlesuits; and over 30 completely worked-out sample robots. [via]More editions of Gurps Robots: Bold Experiments, Faithful Servants, Soulless Killers:
How to Build a Computer-Controlled Robotby Tod LoofbourrowISBN 0810456818 (0-8104-5681-8)
Hardcover, Hayden Book Co
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How to Build Your Own Self-Programming Robotby David L. HeisermanISBN 0830612416 (0-8306-1241-6)
Softcover, Tab Books
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellionby Daniel H. WilsonISBN 1582345929 (1-58234-592-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion'Book summary:An inspired and hilarious look at how humans can defeat the inevitable robot rebellionas revealed by a robotics expert.[via]
How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous smart house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the keys to quashing a robot mutiny.
From treating laser wounds to fooling face and speech recognition, besting robot logic to engaging in hand-to-pincer combat, How to Survive a Robot Uprising covers every possible doomsday scenario facing the newest endangered species: humans. And with its thorough overview of current robot prototypesincluding giant walkers, insect, gecko, and snake robotsHow to Survive a Robot Uprising is also a witty yet legitimate introduction to contemporary robotics. Full of cool illustrations, and referencing some of the most famous robots in pop-culture, How to Survive a Robot Uprising is a one-of-a-kind book that is sure to be a hit with all ages.More editions of How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion:
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I, Robotby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553294385 (0-553-29438-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Robot'Book summary:The three laws of Robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark. [via]More editions of I, Robot:
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Hardcover, Bt Bound - I, Robot: ISBN 0345331397 (0-345-33139-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - I, Robot: ISBN 0385050488 (0-385-05048-8)
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Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the Coming Robotopiaby Frederik L. SchodtISBN 0870119184 (0-87011-918-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Intermediate Robot Buildingby David CookISBN 1590593731 (1-59059-373-1)
Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Introduction to Ai Roboticsby Robin MurphyISBN 0262133830 (0-262-13383-0)
Hardcover, Bradford Books
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Jin Sato's Lego Mindstorms: The Master's Techniqueby Jin SatoISBN 1886411565 (1-886411-56-5)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Joe Nagata's Lego Mindstorms Idea Bookby Joe NagataISBN 1886411409 (1-886411-40-9)
Softcover, No Starch Pr
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Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With Beam Technologyby Dave Hrynkiw, Mark W. TildenISBN 0072226013 (0-07-222601-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With Beam Technology'Book summary:From the publishers of BattleBots: The Official Guide comes this do-it-yourself guide to BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) robots. They're cheap, simple, and can be built by beginners in just a few hours, with help from this expert guide complete with full-color photos. Get ready for some dumpster-diving! [via]
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Lego Spybotics: Secret Agent Training Manalby Ralph HempelISBN 1590590910 (1-59059-091-0)
Softcover, Apress
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lego Spybotics: Secret Agent Training Manal'Book summary:LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual provides complete coverage of the ultimate LEGO Spybotics system. Author Ralph Hempel begins with a Spybotics overview and then delves into the nitty-gritty of Spybotics, including systems training, construction and care, agent communications, mission selection, and even advanced topics, such as how to customize your missions.
LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual is designed to help secret agents get the most out of their LEGO Spybot. Agents will benefit from Hempel's detailed mission summaries, tips on deciphering common problems, and instructions on how to program the Spybot to run top-secret missions by itself. Hempel puts all of the mission-critical information right at your fingertips. Enjoy it even when you're not running covert missions with your Spybot! Are you ready?
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Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligenceby Pamela McCorduckISBN 1568812051 (1-56881-205-1)
Softcover, A K Peters Ltd
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Mad Professor : Concoct Extremely Weird Science Projectsby Mark FrauenfelderISBN 0811835545 (0-8118-3554-5)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mad Professor : Concoct Extremely Weird Science Projects'Book summary:From super-secret Zoober Labs, hidden on the island of Kia Ora in the South Pacific, comes this book of experiments that the "budding mad professor can easily complete using materials around the house." Each of these 25 projects is wonderfully illustrated--on laminated, spiral-bound pages--by author Mark Frauenfelder, a former editor of Wired magazine. Broken into four sections, the book provides a basic science lesson before getting down to the experiments, including bits on the scientific method and Asimov's four rules of robotics. Explicit directions and safety tips follow, and each project ends with a How It Works nugget that unravels the mystery behind the science. The experiments include a bunch of old standbys that no budding mad professor should be without--rock candy, vinegar and baking soda volcanoes, returning tin cans-- as well as a host of unfamiliar slimes and putties that should spark interest in how molecules work. (The description of how polymers work will undoubtedly serve double duty as a refresher for most parents.) Many of the experiments require supervision for younger children, and a few use somewhat less common home materials, but instructions are given in each case on where to find them. (Ages 9 to 12) --D.J. Morel [via]
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March Of The Machines: The Breakthrough In Artificial Intelligenceby K. WarwickISBN 0252072235 (0-252-07223-5)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulationby Zexiang Li, Richard M. Murray, S. Shankar SastryISBN 0849379814 (0-8493-7981-4)
Hardcover, CRC Pr I Llc
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Maximum Lego Nxtby Brian BagnallISBN 0973864915 (0-9738649-1-5)
Softcover, Variant Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maximum Lego Nxt'Book summary:[via]Over two dozen fun and challenging projects using the next generation of LEGO® MINDSTORMS" and the Java" programming language
LEGO® MINDSTORMS" NXT is an incredible new kit for building and programming your own robotic inventions. Maximum Lego NXT introduces a diverse set of projects, building tips, programming code, complete 3D rendered building instructions and hundreds of illustrations to help you realize your robotic dreams.
Using Java", the most popular and easy to use programming language available, this book will give you endless entertainment and exploration. It introduces the new LEGO® NXT kit, including the NXT intelligent brick and Bluetooth".Maximum NXT includes: Easy to follow instructions by the author of Core LEGO® MINDSTORMS" Programming Explanations for all available sensors and expansion products available for the NXT kit, including unique projects interfacing a video camera, cell phone, GPS, data gloves, and many more An exciting collection of 14 robots, including a chess playing robot, an exoskeleton for your hand, a Mars Rover, a robotic arm you can control through the Internet, a 3D object scanner, soccer robots, and many more Introduces over two dozen in-depth programming projects including navigation, mapping, precise robotic arm control, voice control and global localization Artificial Intelligence concepts including Vision analysis, Rodney Brooks' Subsumption Architecture, and Reinforcement Learning Exciting projects that use third-party sensors like compass, tilt sensor, and port expanders A full chapter on building with the new LEGO stud-less brick paradigm. A complete tutorial on programming Java" How to install a free development environment for leJOS NXJ, the Java" Virtual Machine for the NXT Foreword by Søren Lund, Director of LEGO MINDSTORMSMaximum LEGO NXT is the ultimate LEGO MINDSTORMS guide:
Meet NXT leJOS NXJ Java for Primates The leJOS NXJ API LEGO Parts Building 101 Bite into Bluetooth Grabby Robots Sound Robots with Vision Standing Tall Localization Mapping Path-finding Hands & Exoskeletons Network Robotics Scanning Behavior-Based Robots Expanding the NXT GPS & Harsh Terrain Speech Appendices IndexMore editions of Maximum Lego Nxt:
Mechanical Devices for the Electronics Experimenterby Britt RorabaughISBN 0070535477 (0-07-053547-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligenceby Hans MoravecISBN 0674576187 (0-674-57618-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence'Book summary:A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent-which is just what the field needs" - Kirkus Reviews. [via]
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Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementationby Joseph L. Jones, Bruce A. Seiger, Anita M. FlynnISBN 1568810970 (1-56881-097-0)
Softcover, A K Peters Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation'Book summary:Revised and updated, the second edition includes several new chapters with projects and applications. The authors keep pace with the ever-growing and rapidly expanding field of robotics. The new edition reflects technological developments and includes programs and activities for robot enthusiasts. Using photographs, illustrations, and informative text, Mobile Robots guides the reader through the step-by-step process of constructing two different and inexpensive yet fully functional robots. [via]
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Practical Robotics: Principles and Applicationsby Bill DaviesISBN 096818300X (0-9681830-0-X)
Softcover, C P I C Technical Books
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R. U. R.by Karel CapekISBN 1419143751 (1-4191-4375-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Speciesby Peter Menzel, Faith D'AluisioISBN 0262632454 (0-262-63245-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species'Book summary:If you believe the children are our future, you're only half right. Photographer Peter Menzel and journalist Faith D'Aluisio traveled around the world interviewing researchers who want to jump-start our evolution by designing and building electrical and mechanical extensions of ourselves--robots. Their book, Robo Sapiens, takes its title from the notion that our species might somehow merge with our creations, either literally or symbiotically. The photography is brilliant, showing the endearing and creepy sides of the robots and roboticists and feeling like stills from unmade science-fiction films. D'Aluisio's interviews are insightful and often very funny, as when she calls MIT superstar Rodney Brooks on his statement that we ought not "overanthropomorphize" people. Brooks is an interesting study. Having shaken up the robotics and artificial-intelligence fields with his elimination of high-level intelligence and dedication to tiny, insectoid, built-from-the-ground-up robots, he now works on large, human-mimicking machines. But hundreds of other researchers, in Japan, Europe, and the United States, are working on various aspects of machine behavior, from the eerily lifelike robotic faces of Fumio Hara and Alvaro Villa to the monkeylike movement of Brachiator III; each of them casts a bit of light on the future of their field in their short interviews. Though it's clear that we shouldn't hold our breath waiting for a robot butler, Robo Sapiens suggests that much cooler--and stranger--events are coming soon. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Robot Builder's Bonanzaby Gordon McComb, Michael Predko, Myke PredkoISBN 0071468935 (0-07-146893-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robot Builder's Bonanza'Book summary:A major revision of the bestselling "bible" of amateur robotics building--packed with the latest in servo motor technology, microcontrolled robots, remote control, Lego Mindstorms Kits, and other commercial kits.
Gives electronics hobbyists fully illustrated plans for 11 complete Robots, as well as all-new coverage of Robotix-based Robots, Lego Technic-based Robots, Functionoids with Lego Mindstorms, and Location and Motorized Systems with Servo Motors.
Features a pictures and parts list that accompany all projects, and material on using the BASIC Stamp and other microcontrollers. [via]
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Robot Building for Beginnersby David CookISBN 1893115445 (1-893115-44-5)
Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robot Building for Beginners'Book summary:Learning robotics by yourself isnt easy, but it helps when the encouragement comes from an expert whos spent years in the field. Not only does author David Cook assist you in understanding the component parts of robot development, but he also presents valuable techniques that prepare you to make new discoveries on your own.
Cook begins with the anatomy of a homemade robot and gives you the best advice on how to proceed successfully. General sources for tools and parts are provided in a consolidated list, and specific parts are recommended throughout the book. Also, basic safety precautions and essential measuring and numbering systems are promoted throughout.
Specific tools and parts covered include digital multimeters, motors, wheels, resistors, LEDs, photoresistors, transistors, chips, gears, nut drivers, batteries, and more. Robot Building for Beginners is an inspiring book that provides an essential base of practical knowledge for anyone getting started in amateur robotics.
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The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internetby Ken GoldbergISBN 0262571544 (0-262-57154-4)
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Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mindby Hans P. MoravecISBN 0195136306 (0-19-513630-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind'Book summary:This is science fiction without the fiction--and more mind-bending than anything you ever saw on Star Trek. Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots of superhuman intelligence have picked up the evolutionary baton from their human creators and headed out into space to colonize the universe.
This isn't anything that a million sci-fi paperbacks haven't already envisioned. The difference lies in Moravec's practical-minded mapping of the technological, economic, and social steps that could lead to that vision. Starting with the modest accomplishments of contemporary robotics research, he projects a likely course for the next 40 years of robot development, predicting the rise of superintelligent, creative, emotionally complex cyberbeings and the end of human labor by the middle of the next century.
After Moravec makes this point, his projections start to get really wild: robot corporations will take up residence in outer space with rogue cyborgs; planet-size robots will cruise the solar system looking for smaller bots to assimilate; and eventually every atom in the entire galaxy will be transformed into data-storage space, with a full-scale simulation of human civilization running as a subroutine somewhere.
His last chapter, which mingles the latest in avant-garde physics with hints of Borges's most intoxicating metaphysical conceits, is a breathtaking piece of hallucinatory eschatology. Moravec concludes by reminding us that even the wildest long-range predictions about the technological future never turn out to be as unhinged as they should have been. --Julian Dibbell [via]
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Robot Rover Visual Navigationby Hans P. MoravecISBN 0835712001 (0-8357-1200-1)
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Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machinesby Rodney Allen BrooksISBN 0713995017 (0-7139-9501-7)
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Robot Trilogy : The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawnby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345331192 (0-345-33119-2)
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Roboticsby Editors of Time LifeISBN 0809475820 (0-8094-7582-0)
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Roboticsby Tony PotterISBN 0881106615 (0-88110-661-5)
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Robotics: Understanding Computersby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809456966 (0-8094-5696-6)
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Robots Del Amanecerby Isaac Asimov, Hernan Sabate, Maria Teresa SegurISBN 8497599551 (84-9759-955-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robots Del Amanecer'Book summary:Basandose en sus rigurosos conocimientos cientificos, Asimov ofrece una vision de lo que puede ser en siglos venideros la vida humana en el cosmos. Los robots del amanacer relata como en el planeta Aurora los hombres y sus robots vivian en una armonia aparentemente perfecta hasta el instante en el que el robot mas avanzado fue asesinado. Ocultaba la muerte del androide una lucha despiadada por el control del Universo? [via]
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Robots, Androids and Animatrons: 12 Incredible Projects You Can Buildby John LovineISBN 0071376836 (0-07-137683-6)
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The Rusty Angelby Yukito KishiroISBN 1569310033 (1-56931-003-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rusty Angel'Book summary:In the first volume of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita, Daisuke Ido discovers a badly damaged cyborg in the trash heap beneath the floating city of Tiphares, which he rebuilds and names Alita. She has no memory of her previous life, but when she is drawn into a battle with the monster Makaku, Alita realizes that she must uncover the dark secrets of her past.
Kishiro's story is much more than a science-fiction adventure. Woven into the violent, roller-coaster plot is a strand of philosophical speculation. Battle Angel Alita takes us to a world where technology blurs the boundaries between human and machine, begging the question "What makes us who we are?" [via]
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Seaby Gary KinderISBN 0871134640 (0-87113-464-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea'Book summary:The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.
Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. One of those projects would become the preposterous recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and later urgency with which the project would proceed is contrasted poignantly with the Central America's doomed battle in 1857 to stay afloat.
Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking isn't synonymous with shipwreck in this Titanic-happy age. --Tjames Madison [via]
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Stiquito : Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robotby James M. Conrad, Jonathan W. MillsISBN 0818674083 (0-8186-7408-3)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiquito : Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot'Book summary:This revolutionary new book describes how to build an inexpensive, small-legged robot, and includes the robot kit. The book provides information on the design and control of legged robots and a curriculum for education that presents experiments and projects that illustrates what they teach. The experiments lead the reader on a tour of the current state of research in robotics. Stiquito has also been used to teach in primary, secondary, and high school curricula. The robot is intended for use as a research and educational platform to study computational sensors, subsumption architectures, neural gait control, behavior of social insects, and machine vision. The robot may be powered and controlled through a tether or autonomously with and on-board power supply and electronics.
The book begins with an introduction that describes the birth of Stiquito. The chapters that follow describe the building process, its modifications, and its increased load capacity. Other chapters examine designs for simple controllers to enhance the functionality of the robot and to give the robot intelligence and SCORPIO hardware designs for performing independent, intelligent operations. The text also illustrates Stiquito's uses in education by presenting lab exercises, describing the use of nitinol in classroom experiments, and providing a robotics curriculum for undergraduates. It examines further research on the role of logic in a mobile robot's sensors, control, and locomotion; Stiquito's platform for AI; and simulation of a robot guided by vision. The book concludes with a discussion of the future for nitinol-propelled walking robots. [via]More editions of Stiquito : Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot:
Stiquito for Beginners: An Introduction to Roboticsby James M. Conrad, Jonathan W. MillsISBN 0818675144 (0-8186-7514-4)
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machineby Tom StandageISBN 0802713912 (0-8027-1391-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine'Book summary:[via]On an autumn day in 1769, a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen attended a conjuring show at the court of Maria Theresa, empress of Austria-Hungary. So unimpressed was Kempelen by the performance that he declared he could do better himself. Maria Theresa held him to his word and gave him six months to prepare a show of his own. Kempelen did not disappoint; he returned to the court the following spring with a mechanical man, fashioned from wood, powered by clockwork, dressed in a stylish Turkish costumeand capable of playing chess.The Turk, as this contraption became known, was an instant success, and Tom Standages book chronicles its illustrious career in Europe and America over the next eighty five years. Associated over time with a host of historical figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Babbage, and Edgar Allan Poe, Kempelens creation unwittingly also helped to inspire the development of the power loom, the computer, and the detective story. Everywhere it went, the Turk baffled spectators and provoked frenzied speculation about whether a machine could really think. Many rival theories were published, but they served only to undermine each other.
Part historical detective story, part biography, The Turk relates the saga of the machines remarkable and checkered career against the backdrop of the industrial revolution, as mechanical technology opened up dramatic new possibilities and the relationship between people and machines was being redefined. Today, in the midst of the computer age, it has assumed a new significance, as scientists and philosophers continue to debate the possibility of machine intelligence. To modern eyes, the Turk now seems to have been a surprisingly farsighted invention, and its saga is a colorful and important part of the history of technology.More editions of The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine:
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The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms Robotsby Jonathan B. KnudsenISBN 1565926927 (1-56592-692-7)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms Robots'Book summary:Using a project-oriented approach, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO(r) MINDSTORMS Robots introduces programming and constructing robots using the popular robotics invention. While presenting four complete and progressively more capable robots, the author cover the usage of sensors, motors, the Infra-red (IR) port, and programming languages. Programming topics are covered well, particularly the languages NQC and pbForth, and installing replacement firmware.
Although the book is stronger at covering the software than the mechanical aspects of robot design, the assembly plans incorporate many useful features that can be used in your own designs, including a directional transmission and a single-motor grabber.
Two projects provide clear demonstrations of using the IR port for communication. One involves creating a remote control and using it to communicate with a robot; the other project creates tag-playing robots to demonstrate inter-robot communication.
The series of step-by-step, robot-building photographs are helpful, but they are in black and white and are without a lot of accompanying text. For the simpler robots this isn't a problem, but for Minerva (which is somewhat complicated and a very good learning example) they are a little difficult to follow.
The last chapter of the book includes an informative discussion on building your own sensors, getting sensor input to the RCX, and configuring sensor inputs from your programs.
A thorough introduction, this book even provides links to many online resources. If you specifically need a detailed, organized tutorial on robot mechanical issues, this book may not suit you. If, however, you are looking for a book that introduces building MINDSTORMS robots with useful examples and covers programming them, replacing their firmware, and introduces building sensors for them, this is a perfect book. --John Keogh
Topics covered: Building robots using the Robotics Invention System, programming the RCX using RCX Code, NQC, pbForth, and C, using sensors and actuators, gears, transmissions and pulleys, obtaining and installing pbForth and legOS replacement firmware, communication with and between robots using the IR port, and making your own sensors. [via]
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychologyby Valentino BraitenbergISBN 0262521121 (0-262-52112-1)
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The World of Robotsby Brian MorrisISBN 0831795662 (0-8317-9566-2)
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Ciberiadaby Stanislaw LemISBN 8420658901 (84-206-5890-1)
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Ciberneticaby Norbert WienerISBN 8472234525 (84-7223-452-5)
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Robots Del Amanecerby Isaac AsimovISBN 848450042X (84-8450-042-X)
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Yo, Robotby Isaac AsimovISBN 8435015742 (84-350-1574-2)
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Methodenlehre Der Planung Und Steuerungby Verband fur ArbeitsstudienISBN 3446118780 (3-446-11878-0)
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