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The heart and the chip : our bright future with robots / Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1324050233
  • 9781324050230
Other title:
  • Our bright future with robots
Subject(s):
Contents:
Pt. I. Dreams -- Strength -- Reach -- Time -- Lift -- Magic -- Vision -- Precision -- Pt. II. Reality -- How to build a robot -- The brain in motion -- The brain in touch -- How robots learn -- An informative technical interlude -- The technologist's to-do list -- Pt. III. Responsibility -- Possible futures -- What could go wrong? -- The work of the future -- Computational education -- Grand challenges -- Epilogue: A dream of robots.
Summary: "Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our lives in countless other ways--improving the precision of surgeons, cleaning our homes, extending our reach to distant worlds--and we're on the cusp of even more exciting opportunities."-- Goodreads.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction New 629.8924 R949 Available 33111011129562
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our lives in countless other ways--improving the precision of surgeons, cleaning our homes, extending our reach to distant worlds--and we're on the cusp of even more exciting opportunities.

In The Heart and the Chip, roboticist Daniela Rus and science writer Gregory Mone provide an overview of the interconnected fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and reframe the way we think about intelligent machines while weighing the moral and ethical consequences of their role in society. Robots aren't going to steal our jobs: they're going to make us more capable, productive, and precise.

At once optimistic and realistic, Rus and Mone envision a world in which these technologies augment and enhance our skills and talents, both as individuals and as a species--a world in which the proliferation of robots allows us all to be more human.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.

Pt. I. Dreams -- Strength -- Reach -- Time -- Lift -- Magic -- Vision -- Precision -- Pt. II. Reality -- How to build a robot -- The brain in motion -- The brain in touch -- How robots learn -- An informative technical interlude -- The technologist's to-do list -- Pt. III. Responsibility -- Possible futures -- What could go wrong? -- The work of the future -- Computational education -- Grand challenges -- Epilogue: A dream of robots.

"Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our lives in countless other ways--improving the precision of surgeons, cleaning our homes, extending our reach to distant worlds--and we're on the cusp of even more exciting opportunities."-- Goodreads.

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