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The Coming Robot Revolution: Expectations and Fears about Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines 2009 Edition
Contributor(s): Bar-Cohen, Yoseph (Author), Marom, Adi (Designed by), Hanson, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 0387853480     ISBN-13: 9780387853482
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE: $36.09  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2009
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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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Robotics
- Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics
- Technology & Engineering | Automation
Dewey: 303.483
LCCN: 2008942430
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (1.00 lbs) 173 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2009
 
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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 can perform humanlike functions in a lifelike manner has benefitted greatly from development in such technologies as biologically inspired materials, artificial intelligence, artificial vision, and many others. Producing a humanlike robot that makes body and facial expressions, communicates verbally using extensive vocabulary, and interprets speech with high accuracy is ext- mely complicated to engineer. Advances in voice recognition and speech synthesis are increasingly improving communication capabilities. In our daily life we encounter such innovations when we call the telephone operators of most companies today. As robotics technology continues to improve we are approaching the point where, on seeing such a robot, we will respond with ''Wow, this robot looks unbelievably real '' just like the reaction to an artificial flower. The accelerating pace of advances in related fields suggests that the emergence of humanlike robots that become part of our daily life seems to be imminent. These robots are expected to raise ethical concerns and may also raise many complex questions related to their interaction with humans.
 
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