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Description
Meet the innovators who have shaped our shared future with robots and AI-powered companions
Robotics and artificial intelligence are reshaping our lives at a pace that is both awe-inspiring and daunting. Humanoid robot funding has nearly quadrupled in recent years, drones fill the skies, and a wave of bots now inhabit our digital spaces. In this new era, everyone seems to be talking about how to use this technology and its benefits and pitfalls. But they fail to go behind the scenes of the robotics and AI revolution to share the stories of the people building it.
In My Robot Friends, Dr. Laura Scherling provides fascinating insight into robotics and AI by profiling eight pioneering individuals across four continents. Drawing on original, in-depth interviews, Scherling explores the lives and careers of the innovators who created chatbots long before ChatGPT, built human-like androids, developed the military PackBot, built the first drone in central Africa, developed carebots that support older adults, and more.
Through the stories of these impactful inventors, engineers, and designers, My Robot Friends shows how robotics and AI are changing companionship, caregiving, security, and human identity-and asks what guardrails responsible technology now needs. Written in a narrative style and grounded in the innovators' personal perspectives, historical research, and academic literature, it offers readers a human portrait of emerging technologies that will shape the rest of the century.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
PART I: The Convergence of Robotics and AI
1: Hiroshi Ishiguro and the Android in the Mirror
2: Rollo Carpenter and the Cleverest Bot
PART II: A Personal and Mobile Robotics Revolution
3: Helen Greiner and a Mobile Robotics Revolution
4: William Elong and the First Made-In-Cameroon Drone
PART III: The Rise of Caregiving Robots
5: Cory Kidd and the Robot Caregivers
6: Hyodol, an AI-Powered Grandchild
PART IV: The Evolution of Robotics, Creativity, and Art
7: Madeline Gannon and the Art of Robot Whispering
8: Moon Ribas, Cyborg Artist
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Jun 10 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9798216449935 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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