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Living with robots : what every anxious human needs to know / Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas ; foreword by Noel Sharkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aylett, Ruth, 1951- author.
- Vargas, Patricia A., 1969- author.
- Series:
- MIT Press series in artificial intelligence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial intelligence--Popular works.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Robots--Popular works.
- Robots.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- The truth about robots: two experts look beyond the hype, offering a lively and accessible guide to what robots can (and can't) do.
- Contents:
- Why are we so scared of robots? Appearance-will they look like us? Movement-will they live with us? Senses-will they be aware of us? The lost robot-could they know where they are and how to get home? Touch and handling-could I shake hands with a robot? Could robots be AIs? Could robots learn to do things for themselves? Collaborating robots-could they work as partners or groups? Emotions-could robots have feelings? Social interaction-pets, butlers or companions? Speech and language-would we be able to talk to them? Society and ethics-could a robot have morals?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-273) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36547-2
- OCLC:
- 1266908650
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