Google Glass and Robotics Innovator Sebastian Thrun

by Marne Ventura

Book Overview

Have you ever wished you could use technology to improve people's lives? Ever since he was a teenager, Sebastian Thrun wanted to build machines that helped people.

So far, Thrun has developed robots that can be tour guides and nurses and can help save miners trapped underground. In 2004, he won a US Department of Defense contest by building a car that could drive itself. Since then, the self-driving cars he developed have been tested on...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467724599
• ISBN13: 9781467724593
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6