Robots, Androids and Animatrons, Second Edition enables you to build 12 incredible robot/android projects without any programming or assembly language skill requirement.

This book provides comprehensive but clear and easily understood guides for you to create bots of your own design, what you should have are some basic electronics abilities. The whole book covers a wide variety of robot types: walker robots, solar-ball robots, acrobots, underwater bots, and robotic hands. And it will introduce various components of robot construction: power systems, drive systems, sensors, intelligence, speed controllers, and even neural networks.

In short, Robots, Androids and Animatrons, Second Edition is ideal for anyone who is interested in electronic and motion control, especially for beginner readers who have less experience in robotics (not electronics). Of course, it requires you to know some basic electronic components knowledge.

What you will get

  • Build your first walking, talking, sensing, thinking robot
  • Create 12 working robotic projects, using the fully illustrated instructions provided
  • Get the best available introduction to robotics, motion control, sensors, and neural intelligence
  • Put together basic modules to build sophisticated ‘bots of your own design
  • Construct a robotic arm that responds to your spoken commands Build a realistic, functional robotic hand
  • Apply sensors to detect bumps, walls, inclines , and roads
  • Give your robot expertise and neural intelligence
  • Do all of this without programming or assembly language skills

Table Of Contents

  1. In the beginning
  2. Artificial life and artificial intelligence
  3. Power
  4. Movement and drive systems
  5. Sensors
  6. Intelligence
  7. Speech-controlled mobile robot
  8. Behavioral-based robotics, neural networks, nervous nets, and subsumption architecture
  9. Telepresence robot
  10. Mobile platforms
  11. Walker robots
  12. Solar-ball robot
  13. Underwater bots
  14. Aerobots
  15. Robotic arm and IBM PC interface and speech control
  16. Android hand
  17. Suppliers

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