Life with robots. What everyone needs to know a worrying person. Ailett R., Vargas P., Sharki N.

Ruth Ailet is a professor of computer sciences of the University of Heriot-Uatta. For more than 30 years, he has been engaged in studies of robotics, specializes in the affective and social aspects, software and interaction of man and computers.

Patricia A. Vargas-director and founder of the Robotics University at Heriot-Uatta, teaches computer sciences and robotics. Editor of the magazine "Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics".

Noel Sharki - Honorary Professor of the University of Sheffield, a member of the British Computing Technology Society, a specialist in the field of software development, Controlman of the Fund for responsible robotics and chairman of the International Committee for Control over Robotized weapons.

there are a lot of noise around the robots: part of the information seems to us frightening, and part is utopian. Ruth Ailet and Patricia Vargas tell the history of human interaction with robots-from chat bots and robotic prostheses of limbs to unmanned cars and Roy from many small robots. They demonstrate what robots surpassed people and what they cannot be equal to our amazing talents. The authors explain how robots see, feel, hear, think and learn; describe how robots can cooperate with us and among themselves; Their abilities are evaluated as butler, companions and pets. Finally, they consider the ethical and social problems associated with them: killer robots, sex robots and robots that can take your job.

“Life with robots” will help the reader look at the robots incredibly: as man-made at man-made Artifacts, not an object of anxiety.

You will learn from the book:

- Why can robots swim and fly, but it is difficult for them to walk?

- What are the features of robots Borrowed in animals and insects?

- Why do we have feelings for robots?

- What human abilities are difficult to repeat?