Robot Futures

by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh

Book Overview

A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528320
• ISBN13: 9780262528320
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher