LEADER 03820nam 2200661 450 001 9910826771303321 005 20240219151203.0 010 $a0-262-31319-7 010 $a1-299-28428-0 010 $a0-262-31318-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000099629 035 $a(EBL)3339586 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000836048 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11490155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836048 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10998652 035 $a(PQKB)10280072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339586 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06482293 035 $a(IDAMS)0b00006481d03b5b 035 $a(IEEE)6482293 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00087364 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10672796 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL459678 035 $a(OCoLC)830324495 035 $a(PPN)220189080 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000099629 100 $a20151223d2013 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRobot futures /$fIllah Reza Nourbakhsh 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cMIT Press,$dc2013. 210 2$a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :$cIEEE Xplore,$d[2013] 215 $a1 online resource (156 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-52832-0 311 $a0-262-01862-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNew mediocracy -- Robot smog -- The near future robot primer -- Dehumanizing robots -- Attention dilution disorder -- Brainspotting -- Which robot future : a way forward. 330 $aWith robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. They will be fully connected to the digital world, far better at carrying out online tasks than we are. In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings. Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of "gaze tracking"; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. Nourbakhsh follows each glimpse into the robotic future with an examination of the underlying technology and an exploration of the social consequences of the scenario. Each chapter describes a form of technological empowerment -- in some cases, empowerment run amok, with corporations and institutions amassing even more power and influence and individuals becoming unconstrained by social accountability. (Imagine the hotheaded discourse of the Internet taking physical form.) Nourbakhsh also offers a counter-vision: a robotics designed to create civic and community empowerment. His book helps us understand why that is the robot future we should try to bring about. 606 $aRobotics$vPopular works 606 $aTechnological forecasting$vPopular works 608 $aPopular works.$2fast 615 0$aRobotics 615 0$aTechnological forecasting 676 $a629.8/92 700 $aNourbakhsh$b Illah Reza$f1970-$01442291 801 0$bCaBNVSL 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826771303321 996 $aRobot futures$93933543 997 $aUNINA