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A Treatise on Good Robots
Contributor(s): Tchon, Krzysztof (Author)

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ISBN: 1412852854     ISBN-13: 9781412852852
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $168.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Robotics
- Philosophy
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 629.892
LCCN: 2013021570
Series: Praxiology
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (1.05 lbs) 216 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover
 
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Publisher Description:
This volume investigates the ways emerging technologies in the fields of robotics and bio-robotics are influencing society. It necessarily considers both philosophical and technological study of robots, including what it means for robots to exist as good and moral entities, and how they benefit humans and enhance their quality of life. Contributors address artificial intelligence and social functions as well as technical matters.

Chapters are wide-ranging, and consider robots in science fiction; the need for designers to create moral robots; specific technology; and the development of biological robots. Also addressed are robotic technologies already enhancing human bodies, such as exoskeletons that allow paraplegics to walk.

The contributors foresee robots becoming involved not only in mundane domestic tasks such as washing dishes, but also in providing health care to the disabled and companionship to the elderly. This volume offers exciting philosophical reflections that unveil new connections between robotics and praxiology and their practical applications.


Contributor Bio(s): Tchon, Krzysztof: -

Krzysztof Tcho is professor of automation and robotics at the Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, in charge of the department of fundamental cybernetics and robotics. His research interests concentrate on mathematical aspects of system theory and robotics as well as on social robotics.

Gasparski, Wojciech W.: -

Wojciech W. Gasparski is professor emeritus of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and chair in business ethics at Koźmiński University, Warsaw, Poland.


 
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