| View Larger Image | The Coming Robot Revolution: Expectations and Fears About Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines | Hardcoverby Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Author), David Hanson (Author), Adi Marom (Designer)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Springer | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 174 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 27, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 1,344,716st |
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This book discusses the emergence of humanlike robots into our everyday world. It covers the trends, possibilities, and concerns we will all feel with their emergence. Robots will walk, talk, and look ever more like people, and with the speed at which new technologies develop, this may happen very soon. Robots will be in homes, in space, in workplaces, in hospitals--everywhere. Their capabilities will soon surpass what has been usually considered science fiction. In what directions will the technology be taking us, and how will the presence of these robots challenge our identity? This book explores the fascinating implications of robot technology while alerting of its possibly disturbing flipside. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)
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An excellent overview...almost by Quinbould (Snowmass Village, CO United States)  4 Stars
June 17, 2009
This book is chuck full of useful information for people interested in robotics. It speculates on future developments with some wisdom. In addition, this is one of the few books that is well written and readable. It seems aimed at the smart average person rather than nerdy geek. My only real reservation is that like so many books in this genre, the authors seem to ignore the absolutely essential importance of personality and psychology in the development of advanced human interactive robots. The authors discuss artificial intelligence, but AI will most likely not be an answer for decades. The best robots of today don't use artificial intelligence, they cleverly fake REAL intelligence. That point needs to be understood.
They also speak of the uncanny valley appropriately, but don't clearly explain that it can only be crossed when we're able to get rid of the creepy, mechanical behaviors and add appealing personality as part of the robot's design.
Now with that said, I highly recommend this book. Both authors are extremely knowledgeable and accomplished in this field. They share a great deal in this book. Perhaps it will inspire you to greatness.
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accessible to a general audience by W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) 4 Stars
April 06, 2009
For several years, Springer has been publishing a well regarded set of books on robotics, including recently the massive Springer Handbook of Robotics. But these books were often monographs, intelligible only to researchers in the field. In contrast this current book is accessible to a lay audience.
Like the monographs, each chapter has a considerable list of references and websites. But there is no maths. No equations about control systems theory, about stabilising a dynamical system, for instance. Plus no low level hardware descriptions of actuator mechanics, as another example.
Instead the narrative is kept quite general. It gives a global survey of efforts to develop often humanoid looking robots. Which is another difference from the above mentioned handbook, which went into considerable details about some thoroughly non-humanoid specimens. Bar-Cohen and Hanson stuck to the former, which may be an appeal of this book to some readers.
The book reveals that we have a long way to go before reaching anything like an "intelligent" robot. There are photos in the book of apparently lifelike robots. But these are superficial short cuts, where the robots' exteriors were essentially mannikins. When it comes to actual behaviour and an underlying intelligence, these are early days.
In passing, the book also shows that Japan is making a strong push in this field of humanoid robots. Which reflects in part the aging demographics of their society and the need for ever increasing automation, as well as for companions for humans.
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Robotics by Kwang J. Kim (Reno, NV)  5 Stars
April 02, 2009
Building an intelligent and human-like robot is a challenging task that needs to bring together inter-disciplinary R&D areas including engineering and biological sciences. This book is a timely publication presenting the opportunities for future robotic engineers.
Kwang Kim, University of Nevada, Reno
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