Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know

ISBN-13: 9780262045810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 312 str.

Ruth Aylett; Patricia A. Vargas; Noel Sharkey

Recenzje

"The authors cover an impressive amount of ground and approach the implications of advanced technology with nuance. Well-researched, this survey makes for an in-depth review of the present state of robotics. "
Publishers Weekly

Spis treści

Foreword
Introduction
1 Why are we all so Scared of Robots?
2 Appearance: Will they Look Like Us?
3 Movement: Will they Live with Us?
4 Senses: Will they be Aware of Us?
5 The Lost Robot: Could they Know where they Are and How to Get Home?
6 Touch and Handling: Could I Shake Hands with a Robot?
7 Could Robots be AIs?
8 Could Robots Learn to do things For Themselves?
9 Collaborating Robots: Could they Work as Partners or Groups?
10 Emotions: Could Robots have Feelings?
11 Social Interaction: Pets, Butlers, or Companions?
12 Speech and Language: Would we be Able to Talk to them?
13 Society and Ethics: Could a Robot have Morals?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

O autorze

Ruth Aylett is Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. A robotics researcher for thirty years, she is the author of Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life. Patricia A. Vargas is Founder-Director of the Robotics Laboratory at Heriot-Watt University, where she is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics. She is coeditor of The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics (MIT Press).