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Tables of Contents for Robotics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
The Robot Family Tree
1
16
The First Robots
2
5
Computers
7
1
Factory Automation
8
1
Machine Tools
9
1
Industrial Robots
9
1
Fictional Robots
10
4
Modern Fictional Robots
14
1
Conclusion
15
2
Anatomy of a Robot
17
20
The Human Body---and a Robot's Body
17
1
Arms and Hands
17
7
Moving Around
24
4
Sensors
28
4
The Brain
32
2
Robot School---Teaching Robots To Be Robots
34
2
From Master-Slave to Androids
36
1
Robots at Work Today
37
16
Factory Robots
37
1
Flexible Manufacturing Systems
38
4
Service Industry
42
1
Robot Delivery Systems
42
2
Working in Hazardous Environments
44
1
TOMCAT---Live Electric Transmission Line Maintenance
45
1
Coal Mining
45
1
Security Robots
46
2
Underwater Robots
48
3
Medicine and Health
51
1
Why Aren't There More Robots at Work?
52
1
Artificial Intelligence
53
14
What Does the Human Brain Do?
54
2
Expert Systems
56
5
Uncertainty
61
1
Talking to Intelligent Systems
62
1
Computers for AI
63
4
Intelligent and Advanced Robots
67
16
Are There Intelligent Robots?
67
1
How Smart Should Robots Be?
68
1
Artificially Intelligent Robots
69
1
Planning
70
3
Intelligent Teaching and Learning
73
1
Introspection
73
1
Better Robot Bodies
73
2
Advanced Teleoperation
75
1
Advanced Sensing
75
3
Telepresence
78
1
Brainless, but Intelligent Robots
79
2
Microrobots
81
2
Robots in Space
83
12
Robots on the U.S. Space Station
84
4
Robots for Exploring the Mars Surface
88
5
Space Robots Beyond the Mars Mission
93
2
Robots, Society---and You
95
10
Working Safely with Robots
95
1
The ``Three Laws of Robotics'' Revisited
96
1
Will Robots Replace People in the Workplace?
96
2
Robotics and U.S. Industry
98
1
Living Robots?
98
1
Robots up Close
99
2
Building a Robot
101
4
Glossary
105
6
Further Reading
111
2
Index
113