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100	1		_aJordan, John M, _eauthor. _924926
245	1	0	_aRobots / _cJohn Jordan.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _c[2016]
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2016]
300			_a1 PDF (272 pages).
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe MIT Press essential knowledge series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506			_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aRobots 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 components of robots, the complicating factors that make robotics so challenging, and such applications as driverless cars, unmanned warfare, and robots on the assembly line. Roboticists draw on such technical fields as power management, materials science, and artificial intelligence. Jordan points out, however, that robotics design decisions also embody such nontechnical elements as value judgments, professional aspirations, and ethical assumptions, and raise questions that involve law, belief, economics, education, public safety, and human identity. Robots will be neither our slaves nor our overlords; instead, they are rapidly becoming our close companions, working in partnership with us -- whether in a factory, on a highway, or as a prosthetic device. Given these profound changes to human work and life, Jordan argues that robotics is too important to be left solely to roboticists.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 03/08/2017.
650		0	_aRobotics _vPopular works. _923990
650		0	_aRobots _xSocial aspects _vPopular works. _924927
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _924928
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _924929
830		0	_aMIT Press essential knowledge series. _924930
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7845162
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