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"How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology--and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income...

NXT One-Kit Creatures offers full-color building and programming instructions for five original animal robot designs that can be built with a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 1.0 or NXT 2.0 kit. The animals are an undulating shark, a crawling horseshoe crab, a backwardly-mobile dung beetle, a walking chick, and a leaping grasshopper. Each design shows another unique way to make an animal robot move. Anyone new to the NXT will find these models easy to build...

Learn to make your own robots with this accessible, illustrated guide for robotics enthusiasts, featuring 13 unique robotics projects suitable for beginner to intermediate level. You've seen the sci-fi movies and dreamed of creating your very own robot. Now learn to build machines with your own hands that will move or perform tasks at your command. Featuring brand-new projects and specially commissioned photography, this book uses easily sourced components...

Robots exist all around us. They populate our factories, assist our surgeons and have become an integral part of our armed forces. But they are not just working behind the scenes – impressive inventions such as free-roaming hoovers take care of your household chores and the iPal is set to become your closest friend. David Hambling reveals the groundbreaking machines – once the realm of science fiction – that are by our sides today, and those...

Personal robots are about as advanced today as personal computers were on the eve of the first IBM PC in the early 1980s. They are still the domain of hobbyists who cobble them together from scratch or from kits, join local clubs to swap code and stage contests, and whose labor of love is setting the stage for a technological revolution. This book will deconstruct the 30 regional winning robot designs from the FIRST Robotics Competition in 2006. The...

The "Trolley Problem" has long been a favorite of philosophy classes-do you flip a switch on a train line and save five lives at the expense of one? The answer has remained academic-until now. Those writing the code for driverless cars not only have to discuss all the ramifications and scenarios of the "Trolley Problem," they have to provide a B&W answer for all variations of it. This is just one example of how the continuing advancement of technology...

A medida que se populariza la impresión 3D, muchos han aprovechado esta industria para labrarse una fortuna y ganar en grande. Estos resultados no son ciertamente pan comido, pero por otra parte la única manera de tener éxito es salir a buscarlo, y revisar qué han hecho quienes han logrado conceptualizar esta forma de hacer dinero. Si ha estado siempre interesado en la impresión 3D y quiere hacer dinero con esta tecnología, es hora de que piense...

The co-founder of Baidu explains how AI will transform human livelihood, from our economy and financial systems down to our daily lives. Written by Baidu cofounder Robin Li and prefaced by award-winning sci-fi writer Cixin Liu (author of The Three-Body Problem), Artificial Intelligence Revolution introduces Baidu's teams of top scientists and management as pioneers of movement toward AI. The book covers many of the latest AI-related ideas and technological...

Computer programs can recognize human faces more reliably than humans. They beat us at board games, they bluff better than the best poker players in the world, and some of them can almost pass as human. At a breathtaking pace, machines are becoming better and faster at making complex decisions-even compared to us. In Who's Afraid of AI?, a guide to the most awe-inspiring AI achievements-as well as the most frightening-award-winning author Thomas Ramge...

How to Optimize Human-Machine Work Combinations Your organization has made the decision to adopt automation and artificial intelligence technologies. Now, you face difficult and stubborn questions about how to implement that decision: How, when, and where should we apply automation in our organization? Is it a stark choice between humans versus machines? How do we stay on top of these technological trends as work and automation continue to evolve? Work...