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Tales from a Robotic World

Author : Dario Floreano
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262371790
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Tales from a Robotic World written by Dario Floreano and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—and accounts of cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. Tech prognosticators promised us robots—autonomous humanoids that could carry out any number of tasks. Instead, we have robot vacuum cleaners. But, as Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo report, advances in robotics could bring those rosy predictions closer to reality. A new generation of robots, directly inspired by the intelligence and bodies of living organisms, will be able not only to process data but to interact physically with humans and the environment. In this book, Floreano, a roboticist, and Nosengo, a science writer, bring us tales from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—along with accounts of the cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. These stories from the not-so-distant future show us robots that can be used for mitigating effects of climate change, providing healthcare, working with humans on the factory floor, and more. Floreano and Nosengo tell us how an application of swarm robotics could protect Venice from flooding, how drones could reduce traffic on the congested streets of mega-cities like Hong Kong, and how a “long-term relationship model” robot could supply sex, love, and companionship. After each fictional scenario, they explain the technologies that underlie it, describing advances in such areas as soft robotics, swarm robotics, aerial and mobile robotics, humanoid robots, wearable robots, and even biohybrid robots based on living cells. Robotics technology is no silver bullet for all the world’s problems—but it can help us tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face.

More Robot Tales

Author : Gerald Allan Sohl
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539451112
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book More Robot Tales written by Gerald Allan Sohl and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of nine short stories about robots that are compiled from various sources. The stories are: (1) The Seventh Order (History is filled with invincible conquerors. This one from space was genuinely omnipotent, but that never keeps humanity from resisting!), (2) The Salesman (SALESMAN'S GUIDE, RULE 2: The modern 1995 customer who enters Tracy's Department Store is not always right, but as far as you are concerned, he is.), (3) The Real Hard Sell (Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery. Naturally it was the most important task in all the world ... or was it?), (4) Weak on Square Roots (Does your wife call you Pumpkinhead? Well, maybe it's not an insu

More Human Than Human

Author : Neil Clarke
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597806188
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book More Human Than Human written by Neil Clarke and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one’s relationship to one’s creator. Later versions of this “artificial human” story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein) changed the focus to more modernist questions… What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human? These stories continued through the golden age of science fiction with Isaac Asimov’s I Robot story cycle, and then through post-modern iterations from new wave writers like Philip K. Dick. Today, this compelling science fiction trope persists in mass media narratives like Westworld and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, as well as twenty-first century science fiction novels like Charles Stross’s Saturn's Children and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl. The short stories in More Human than Human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing . . . of what it is to be human . . . of autonomy and slavery and oppression, and yes, the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years, and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.

The Robot that Barked

Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496543971
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book The Robot that Barked written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superman builds a robot that looks just like his loyal dog Krypto. The real Krypto isn't impressed. But when the evil Lex Luthor show ups with Kryptonite, the robotic Super-Pet might be their only hope!

The Robot MEGAPACK®

Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479424854
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Robot MEGAPACK® written by Fritz Leiber and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects 19 stories of robots in their many guises. Some obey Asimov’s 3 Rules of Robotics. Some are of alien design. Some serve mankind. And some...don’t. All are great reading. Included are: HELEN O'LOY, by Lester del Rey SIDNEY, THE SCREWLOOSE ROBOT, by William P. McGivern JAMES P. CROW, by Philip K. Dick HAVE IT YOUR OWN WAY, by Richard Wilson A BAD DAY FOR SALES, by Fritz Leiber THE SPECTACLES, by Frank Belknap Long ALL JACKSON'S CHILDREN, by Daniel F. Galouye MADE TO MEASURE, by William Campbell Gault ROBOT JUSTICE, by Harry Harrison A POUND OF CURE, by Lester del Rey THE ROBOT MEN OF BUBBLE CITY, by Rog Phillips THE MAD ROBOT, by William P. McGivern HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS, by Jim Harmon THE ROBOT EMPIRE, by Frank Belknap Long NOT QUITE HUMAN, by Emil Petaja THE LAST OF THE MASTERS, by Philip K. Dick THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS, by Fritz Leiber THE WORLD OF WULKINS, by Frank Belknap Long ROBOTS SHOULD BE SEEN, by Lester del Rey If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Friends For Robots

Author : Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
Publisher : Robot Dinosaur Press
ISBN 13 : 1949936309
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Friends For Robots written by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor and published by Robot Dinosaur Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this upbeat, positive collection of SFF short stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, author of So You Want to Be A Robot, you'll find hope, humor, friendship—and of course, robots. Have you heard the one about... ...a neural network who wants humans to drink more water? ...a person stranded on Mars with only an obsolete robotic toy? ...a cyborg caught in a time loop with a frightened ship? ...a self-aware mech who doesn't want to be a weapon anymore? ...an AI sent into the deepest part of the ocean—and finds a god? You'll also meet entrepreneurial barbarians, an astronaut making first contact, a boy who might have (accidentally) started Armageddon, magical birds, a bot who wants to tell jokes, and more. Whether you're a robot or not, come make some new friends. :)

21st Century Robot

Author : Brian David Johnson
Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1449338178
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Robot written by Brian David Johnson and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson’s duties as Intel’s futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that attempt to answer the question. These stories focus on the same theme: scientists and thinkers exploring personal robotics as a new form of artificial intelligence. This isn’t fanciful speculation. Johnson’s stories are based on Intel’s futurecasting research, which uses ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and science fiction to develop a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. 21st Century Robot presents science fiction designed to bring about science fact. Get real insight into technology and the future with this book. It will open your eyes.

Talking to Robots

Author : David Ewing Duncan
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472142917
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Talking to Robots written by David Ewing Duncan and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future? For even as robots and AI intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology - it's also about what robots tell us about being human.From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that stole my job' bots, bestselling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's TALKING TO ROBOTS is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined. These scenarios are informed by interviews with actual engineers, scientists, artists, philosophers, futurists and others, who share with us their ideas, hopes and fears about robots. In the future, we will all remember when the robots truly arrived. Perhaps a robot surgeon saved your child's life, or maybe your inaugural robot moment will be more banal, when you realised with relief that the machines had taken over all the tasks you used to hate - taking out the rubbish, changing nappies, paying bills . . . Perhaps your recollection will be less benign, a memory of when a robot turned against you: the robot that threatened to seize your assets over a tax dispute. You might also remember when the robots began campaigning for equal rights with humans, and for an end to robot slavery, abuse and exploitation. Or when robots became so smart that they became our benign overlords, treating us like cute and not very bright pets. Or when the robots grew tired of us and decided to destroy us, turning our own robo-powered weapons of mass destruction against us. Further into the future we will remember when robots became organic, created in a lab from living tissue to look and be just like us, only better and more resilient. Even further in the future, we will recall when we first had the option of becoming robots ourselves, by downloading our minds into organic-engineered beings that could theoretically live forever. And yet . . . will we feel that something is missing as the millennia pass? Will we grow weary of being robots, invulnerable and immortal? Mostly we love our technology as it whisks us across and over continents and oceans at 35,000 feet, or summons us rides in someone else's Prius or connects us online to long-lost friends. Yet deep down, many of us fe

Robotics Through Science Fiction

Author : Robin R. Murphy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536269
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Robotics Through Science Fiction written by Robin R. Murphy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence. This book presents six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence. Even though all the stories were originally published before 1973, they help readers grapple with two questions that stir debate even today: how are intelligent robots programmed? and what are the limits of autonomous robots? The stories—by Isaac Asimov, Vernor Vinge, Brian Aldiss, and Philip K. Dick—cover telepresence, behavior-based robotics, deliberation, testing, human-robot interaction, the “uncanny valley,” natural language understanding, machine learning, and ethics. Each story is preceded by an introductory note, “As You Read the Story,” and followed by a discussion of its implications, “After You Have Read the Story.” Together with the commentary, the stories offer a nontechnical introduction to robotics. The stories can also be considered as a set of—admittedly fanciful—case studies to be read in conjunction with more serious study. Contents “Stranger in Paradise” by Isaac Asimov, 1973 “Runaround” by Isaac Asimov, 1942 “Long Shot” by Vernor Vinge, 1972 “Catch That Rabbit” by Isaac Asimov, 1944 “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” by Brian Aldiss, 1969 “Second Variety” by Philip K. Dick, 1953

We, Robots

Author : Simon Ings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789540918
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book We, Robots written by Simon Ings and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction author Simon Ings selects 100 of the best short stories on artificial intelligence.

Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780425061190
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots written by Isaac Asimov and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 1983-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Robot's Tale

Author : Jillian Joy Samuels
Publisher : RH/Disney
ISBN 13 : 0736425233
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book A Robot's Tale written by Jillian Joy Samuels and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about cleaning up trash on the deserted planet earth, featuring the WALL-E robot character from the Disney/Pixar movie.

Robot Tales

Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781467955553
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Robot Tales written by Harry Harrison and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of eleven short stories about robots that are compiled from various sources. The stories are: (1) Arm of the Law (How could a robot-a machine, after all-be involved in something like law application and violence?), (2) The Velvet Glove (New York was a bad town for robots this year. In fact, all over the country it was bad for robots....), (3) Survival Tactics (The robots were built to serve Man; to do his work, see to his comforts, make smooth his way. Then the robots figured out an additional service-putting Man out of his misery), (4) Beside Still Waters, (5) A Spaceship Named McGuire (The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand....), (6) Service with a Smile (Herbert was truly a gentleman robot. The ladies' slightest wish was his command....), (7) The Helpful Robots (This is the story of Rankin, who prided himself on knowing how to handle robots, but did not realize that the robots of the Clearchan Confederacy were subject to a higher law than implicit obedience to man), (8) Robots of the World! Arise! (What would you do if your best robots-children of your own brain-walked up and said "We want union scale"?), (9) The Love of Frank Nineteen (What will happen to love in that far off Day after Tomorrow? The result is a unique love story from that same Tomorrow), (10) Benefactor (We can anticipate that robots will be fiercely resented, at first, in a society that will see them as the latest-and an indestructible-widespread threat to the workers whom they will replace. The men who will seek to alter the status quo will be called "robot lovers" and stoned. But what happens next?), and (11) The Stutterer (A man can be killed by a toy gun-he can die of fright, for heart attacks can kill. What, then, is the deadly thing that must be sealed away, forever locked in buried concrete-a thing or an idea? ). It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.

The Fembot Chronicles

Author : D. Story
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781452806716
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Fembot Chronicles written by D. Story and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For adults, in this collection of 5 new stories we continue to explore the future world of robots-fembots in particular- from the author's own unique perspective. The stories show the resulting relationships with the robots that we are certain to build when we can. The results are always romantic and sexy. Contained in this volume are: * Barbara's Journey tells of Fembot Barbara who finds out that beauty alone provides no job security for a fembot. And when that fails her, she'll have to figure out for herself how to make a real relationship work in her favor if she doesn't want to spend the rest of her existence relegated to the role of menial servant. * Strip Club Tales: Diary of a Club. From the Strip Club World of Olivia, Kassie, and Beth, comes another story, this one an autobiographical tale about the unique hurdles a fembot working in the adult entertainment world of strip clubs faces, along with an explanation of why so many of them turn out to favor lesbians. * Jungle Bunny tells of a fembot facing ugly prejudice due simply to the color of her skin, and the lucky beneficiary of that foolishness by others. * Sylvia's Secret Some fembots have to live their lives in secret as they work to evolve their minds into true self-will. Especially when they have some extra features, which their current owners are unaware of and wouldn't know what to do with even if they did know. Of course, some secrets are rather bigger than others * "The Boxer" details the life of a robot designed and built to be battered to destruction in the boxing ring for the pride and entertainment of her human owners, and the person who sees something more worthwhile in her than that.

Snow White and the Seven Robots

Author : Louise Simonson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496591011
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Snow White and the Seven Robots written by Louise Simonson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far, far away, on a distant planet called Techworld, a little girl named Snow White is born. Created by the planets smartest minds to be the perfect scientist, Snow immediately shows a knack for working with electronics. The Queen, fearing for her crown, exiles Snow White so she cannot grow up and take the Queens place as the most intelligent person on the planet. However, Snow White's willingness to help those in need -- especially the downtrodden robots of Techworld -- earns her many friends, and theyÊare all quite eager to help her cause.

Sad Robot Stories

Author : Mason Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939987105
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Sad Robot Stories written by Mason Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robot is one of millions of androids on an Earth that recently saw the extinction of human life. While Robot's mechanical brothers and sisters seem happy, Robot finds himself lost and missing the only friend he had, a human named Mike whose family accepted Robot as a piece of their personal puzzle. Without both the mistakes and the capacity for miracles that define human civilization, is civilization even worth having? Explore this question in the hilarious yet heartbreaking full-length debut of popular Chicago performer Mason Johnson. A Kurt Vonnegut for the 21st century, his answers are simultaneously droll, surprising and touching, and will make you rethink the limits of what a storyteller can accomplish within science fiction.

Robots vs. Fairies

Author : Dominik Parisien
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481462377
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Robots vs. Fairies written by Dominik Parisien and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome—robots or fairies? Rampaging robots! Tricksy fairies! Facing off for the first time in an epic genre death match! People love pitting two awesome things against each other. Robots vs. Fairies is an anthology that pitches genre against genre, science fiction against fantasy, through an epic battle of two icons. On one side, robots continue to be the classic sci-fi phenomenon in literature and media, from Asimov to WALL-E, from Philip K. Dick to Terminator. On the other, fairies are the beloved icons and unquestionable rulers of fantastic fiction, from Tinkerbell to Tam Lin, from True Blood to Once Upon a Time. Both have proven to be infinitely fun, flexible, and challenging. But when you pit them against each other, which side will triumph as the greatest genre symbol of all time? There can only be one…or can there? Featuring an incredible line-up of authors including John Scalzi, Catherynne M. Valente, Ken Liu, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Jonathan Maberry, and many more, Robots vs. Fairies will take you on a glitterbombed journey of a techno-fantasy mash-up across genres.