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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.** Robots are entering the mainstream. Technologies have advanced to the point of mass commercialization -- Roomba, for example -- and adoption by governments -- most notably, their use of drones. Meanwhile, these devices are being received by a public whose main sources of information about robots are the fantasies of popular culture. We know a lot about C-3PO and Robocop but not much about Atlas, Motoman, Kiva, or Beam -- real-life robots that are reinventing warfare, the industrial workplace, and collaboration. In this book, technology analyst John Jordan offers an accessible and engaging introduction to robots and robotics, covering state-of-the-art applications, economic implications, and cultural context. Jordan chronicles the prehistory of robots and the treatment of robots in science fiction, movies, and television -- from the outsized influence of Mary Shelley's __Frankenstein__ to Isaac Asimov's __I, Robot__ (in which Asimov coined the term "robotics"). He offers a guided tour of robotics today, describing the compon

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Author

John M. Jordan

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262335652

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Social Science, Computer Science