LEADER 04744nam 22007455 450 001 9910983375203321 005 20250204071256.0 010 $a9783319758237 010 $a3319758233 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-75823-7 035 $a(CKB)37447359300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31896954 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31896954 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-75823-7 035 $a(OCoLC)1496394535 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937447359300041 100 $a20250204d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRobotics Goes MOOC $eDesign /$fedited by Bruno Siciliano 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (472 pages) 311 08$a9783319758220 311 08$a3319758225 327 $a1 Tamim Asfour, Samuel Rader, Pascal Weiner, Felix Hundhausen, Julia Starke, Cornelius Klas, Stefan Reither, Chrisfian R. G. Dreher, Fabian Reister, Miha Dezman and Charlofte Marquardt, Robotronics ? Robot Mechatronics -- 2 Anthony A. Maciejewski and Biyun Xie, Redundant Robots -- 3 Andreas Müller, Parallel Robots -- 4 Joern Malzahn, Freia Muster and Torsen Bertram, Elastic Robots -- 5 Cecilia Laschi, Soft Robots -- 6 Mark R. Cutkosky, Bioinspired Robot Design -- 7 Marilena Vendittelli, Wheeled Robots -- 8 Kensuke Harada, Humanoids. 330 $aA robot?s appearance and its way of interacting with humans is of fundamental importance. Until a few years ago there was a clear asymmetry between the typically excellent performance of industrial robots and their ugly and disharmonious bodies, with crude ways and potentially very dangerous movements for the human environment. A modern artifact can be as harmonious and beautiful as a complex biological machine or a work of plastic art and thus it should be clear how design plays a key role for robot technology to become a part of our everyday life and change it essentially in a responsible and beneficial manner. It is designers who shape the interface between humans and machines and, as such, they will contribute to make robots as customizable and intuitively useful to inexperienced users according to a plug-and-play mode. The new concept of robotronics as the mechatronics approach to designing advanced robots is the focus of the first chapter of the second bookof the Robotics Goes MOOC project by Asfour et al. The main issues for robot manipulator design are covered in the subsequent material, namely redundant robots in Chapter 2 by Maciejewsky et al and parallel robots in Chapter 3 by Müller, where widely adopted kinematic solutions are presented. Then, the adoption to flexibilty, as opposed to the rigid mechanics paradigm, is discussed in Chapter 4 by Bertram et al with reference to elastic robots and in Chapter 5 by Laschi focused on soft robotics. Somewhat speculating on the previous two design solutions comes Chapter 6 by Cutkosky dealing with bioinspired robots. The last part of the book is devoted to robot locomotion, namely, Chapter 7 by Vendittelli on wheeled robots and Chapter 8 by Harada on (biped) humanoids. The image on the cover metaphorically illustrates the design paradigm of robotics through a hand firmly grasping an apple. The content published here are linked to a series of MOOCs on Robotics specifically created and hosted by Federica Web Learning. You can access the related content via our app: download the SN More Media app for free, scan the link and access directly to the online courses on your smartphone or tablet. 606 $aAutomatic control 606 $aRobotics 606 $aAutomation 606 $aArtificial intelligence 606 $aSystem theory 606 $aControl theory 606 $aLogic design 606 $aDesign 606 $aControl, Robotics, Automation 606 $aArtificial Intelligence 606 $aSystems Theory, Control 606 $aLogic Design 606 $aDesign 615 0$aAutomatic control. 615 0$aRobotics. 615 0$aAutomation. 615 0$aArtificial intelligence. 615 0$aSystem theory. 615 0$aControl theory. 615 0$aLogic design. 615 0$aDesign. 615 14$aControl, Robotics, Automation. 615 24$aArtificial Intelligence. 615 24$aSystems Theory, Control. 615 24$aLogic Design. 615 24$aDesign. 676 $a629.892 700 $aSiciliano$b Bruno$08617 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910983375203321 996 $aRobotics Goes MOOC$94316375 997 $aUNINA