Robots, androids, and animatrons

The time has come for you to bring a robot to life! With the plummeting costs of microcontrollers, quantum improvements and price reductions in other technologies, and the availability of a slew of exciting components in the electronics marketplace, there...

 Welding Robots Technology, System and Applications

From car manufacturing to the production of niche products, welding is now one of the most widespread and successful applications of industrial robotics. Welding Robotics: Technology, System Issues and Application is a detailed overview of robotic weld...

 Amphibionics Build your own biologically inspired robot

Step-by-step plans on building 4 different creatures snake, frog, turtle, and alligator with walking and swimming ability Tells you all you need for mechanical construction, programming, locomotion, remote control, and customization Teaches mechani...

 Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems Theory, Methods, and Algorithms

Modern robotics dates from the late 1960s, when progress in the development of microprocessors made possible the computer control of a multiaxial manipulator. Since then, robotics has evolved to connect with many branches of science and engineering, and t...

 Autonomous Robotic Systems Soft Computing and Hard Computing Methodologies and Applications

This book contains an edited collection of eighteen contributions on soft and hard computing techniques and their applications to autonomous robotic systems. Each contribution has been exclusively written for this volume by a leading researcher. The volum...