The Coming Robot Revolution: Expectations and Fears about Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines

by Yoseph Bar-Cohen and David Hanson

Book Overview

Making a robot that looks and behaves like a human being has been the subject of many popular science fiction movies and books. Although the development of such a robot facesmanychallenges, themakingofavirtualhumanhaslongbeenpotentiallypossible. With recent advances in various key technologies related to hardware and software, the making of humanlike robots is increasingly becoming an engineering reality. Development of the required hardware that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387853480
• ISBN13: 9780387853482
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"