Table of Contents Humans Have Long Dreamed of Creating Robots Da Vinci Provides a Steady Hand Bionic Limbs Help People Move Naturally Again Robot Helps Paralyzed Woman Complete Marathon R2 Takes a Giant Leap for Robo kind Rovers Go Where No Person Has Gone Before Nature Inspires Roboticists Robot Swarm Uses Teamwork to Do Big Things Drones Take to the Skies HUBO Wins Robotics Challenge Modular Robots Shape Shift Social Robot Cracks Jokes Fact Sheet Glossary For More Information Index About the Author
1 Humans Have Long Dreamed of Creating Robots Humans have built devices that of these machines could learn new move or act like people and animals tasks Each device was built to do for hundreds of years In the one thing They were not true robots 1700s inventors built automata or The first robot was invented in the mechanical puppets Automata could 1950s Unimate was an industrial move their arms lips or other body robot It was installed at General parts Some could write Some could Motors in 1961 Unimate had a draw One famous automaton could long arm that stacked hot pieces play 12 songs on a flute But none of metal The robot followed instructions programmed into its control system It used the instructions to make decisions about its job And that is perhaps the Many automata were designed to look and act like humans
Building Better Robots
Examines 12 of the most interesting facts about creating more adaptable and intelligent robots.
About This Book
By: Angie Smibert
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Published by: 12-Story Library provided by Amicus, part of The Creative Company
