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Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots – from the earliest single-task machines to the advanced intelligence of robots with feelings. Young readers will be amazed to learn all that robots can do: perform delicate surgical operations, clean city sewers, work as museum tour guides, or even battle each other in combat. Find out how humans have created these mechanical minds and bodies.

This book will show you how to use your Arduino to control a variety of different robots, while providing step-by-step instructions on the entire robot building process. You’ll learn Arduino basics as well as the characteristics of different types of motors used in robotics. You also discover controller methods and failsafe methods, and learn how to apply them to your project. The book starts with basic robots and moves into more complex projects, including a GPS-enabled robot, a robotic lawn mower, a fighting bot, and even a DIY Segway-clone. Introduction to the Arduino and other components needed for robotics Learn how to build motor controllers Build bots from simple line-following and bump-sensor bots to more complex robots that can mow your lawn, do battle, or even take you for a ride What you’ll learn Basics of motor-control Basics of PCB design and fabrication R/C control and decoding Autonomous sensor guidance Frame building from various materials Instructions for a variety of robot designs Who this book is for Electronics and robotics hobbyists and DIY builders.

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) our greatest existential threat?  Will AI take your Job? Is Privacy dead? Is Universal Basic Income a viable  strategy or just a temporary bandage? Will AI solve all our problems? Will it make us happier? We can’t put the genie back in the bottle once it’s out. If we don’t candidly answer the pertinent questions, we will only paint a false picture.

We are standing at a crucial and pivotal point in history. It’s time for diversity in AI. This unprecedented technology will affect society as a whole and we need individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to join the discussion. The issues surrounding  AI can’t be left to a small group of scientists, technologists or business executives to address. Our future and our children’s future are at stake.

More than ever, we need leaders who will stand on integrity and who will put people first.

Do you want to take a glimpse into the future of leadership? The Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence offers the most comprehensive view of what is taking place in the world of AI and emerging technologies, and gives valuable insights that will allow you to successfully navigate the tsunami of technology that is coming our way.

Ultimate Make: Electronics Kit Bundle – Includes the Full Set of 3 Electronics Kits & and Make: Electronics 2nd Edition Paperback Experiment Project Book by Charles Platt


Everything you need for a beginner to start learning basic electronic circuits with the best selling educational electronics book for 3 Years and counting, Make: Electronics. Our kits were designed from the ground up for the Make: Electronics book as we worked with the author, Charles Platt, directly to make our kits the perfect match for his experiments. ProTechTrader Kits are the only component packs approved by the author that covers all experiments in the book including the most interesting Chapter 5 experiments were you will learn to program a Arduino Uno R3 microcontroller to control other electronic circuits. Please Note some non-electronic components, such as a ordinary lemon and galvanized metal bracket could not be included with the kits.

The kits literally include 100s and 100s of parts that is too long to list all of them, but here are some to get you started: Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes, Transistors, Speakers, Soldering Iron, Solder, Breadboard, Printed Circuit Board, Integrated Circuits, Timers, Decade Counters, LEDs, Piezoelectric Element, Alkaline Batteries, Multimeter, Alligator clips, Test Leads, Arduino Uno Microcontroller, Hook-up Wire, Antenna Wire, Tactile Switches, Relayes, Fuses, Slide Switches, Toggle Switches, Potentiometers, Germanium Diode, and much much more!

All kits are hand assembled in the US were parts are individually bagged and labeled for convenient easy access. It is our goal to make sure you enjoy the experiments and have fun while learning electronics.

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Design, simulate, program, and prototype an interactive autonomous mobile robot from scratch with the help of Python, ROS, and Open-CV!

About This Book

• Design, simulate, build and program an interactive autonomous mobile robot
• Program Robot Operating System using Python
• Get a grip on the hands-on guide to robotics for learning various robotics concepts and build an advanced robot from scratch

Who This Book Is For

If you are an engineer, a researcher, or a hobbyist, and you are interested in robotics and want to build your own robot, this book is for you. Readers are assumed to be new to robotics but should have experience with Python.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the core concepts and terminologies of robotics
• Create 2D and 3D drawings of robots using freeware such as LibreCAD and Blender
• Simulate your robot using ROS and Gazebo
• Build robot hardware from the requirements
• Explore a diverse range of actuators and its interfacing
• Interface various robotic sensors to robots
• Set up and program OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL to process 2D/3D visual data
• Learn speech processing and synthesis using Python
• Apply artificial intelligence to robots using Python
• Build a robot control GUI using Qt and Python
• Calibration and testing of robot

In Detail

Learning about robotics will become an increasingly essential skill as it becomes a ubiquitous part of life. Even though robotics is a complex subject, several other tools along with Python can help you design a project to create an easy-to-use interface.

Learning Robotics Using Python is an essential guide for creating an autonomous mobile robot using popular robotic software frameworks such as ROS using Python. It also discusses various robot software frameworks and how to go about coding the robot using Python and its framework. It concludes with creating a GUI-based application to control the robot using buttons and slides.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a clear idea of how to integrate and assemble all things into a robot and how to bundle the software package.

Algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems: they control or reason about motion and perception in the physical world. They receive input from noisy sensors, consider geometric and physical constraints, and operate on the world through imprecise actuators. The design and analysis of robot algorithms therefore raises a unique combination of questions in control theory, computational and differential geometry, and computer science.

This book contains the proceedings from the 2006 Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. This biannual workshop is a highly selective meeting of leading researchers in the field of algorithmic issues related to robotics. The 32 papers in this book span a wide variety of topics: from fundamental motion planning algorithms to applications in medicine and biology, but they have in common a foundation in the algorithmic problems of robotic systems.

A colorful introduction to the technology behind robots explains complex mathematical and scientific concepts in simple, engaging ways. By the authors of ABCs of Engineering.

“The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.” -Isaac Asimov Although this famous quote derived from Isaac Asimov, professor of biochemistry at Boston University, seems plausible, it is highly improbable. The truth is, with the current status of robotic innovation, we are decades or even centuries before we must worry about the consequences that robotic innovation will have for humanity in the future.
A robot is a simple enough idea. It is a machine that can do something by itself, in the simplest terms. You have almost certainly seen them in movies or read about them. Many people think of a metallic, human looking, machine when they think of a robot. The reality these days is a little less dramatic than that. In appearance, modern robots are often complex limbs or moving tools. They can complete tasks largely without the need for human assistance, but they are a long way from the types of robots people have been imagining for centuries; that’s right, the idea of the ‘robot’ is very old indeed.The things that robots might be able to do are a key driving force beyond their development.
These ideas drive related fields, and those in turn, drive people to come up with better ways to make and use robots.If you are interested in the future, history and present state of robotics, then this book is a must-have addition to your collection.