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  title info:
    title: Our robots, ourselves
    sub title: robotics and the myths of autonomy
  title info:
    title: Robotics and the myths of autonomy
  name:
    name part: Mindell, David A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From drones to Mars rovers, an exploration of the most innovative use of robots today and a provocative argument for the crucial role of humans in our increasingly technological future. In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines. Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments, high atmosphere, deep ocean and outer space, to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist. In these environments, scientists use robots to discover new information about ancient civilizations, to map some of the world's largest geological features, and even to "commute" to Mars to conduct daily experiments. But these tools of air, sea and space also forecast the dangers, ethical quandaries and unintended consequences of a future in which robotics and automation suffuse our everyday lives. Mindell argues that the stark lines we've drawn between human and not human, manual and automated, aren't helpful for understanding our relationship with robotics. Brilliantly researched and accessibly written, Our Robots, Ourselves clarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he calls "rich human presence" at the center of the technological landscape we are now creating.
  table of contents: Human, remote, autonomous -- Sea -- Air -- War -- Space -- Beyond Utopian autonomy -- Autonomy in the human world.
  note: David A. Mindell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Autonomous robots
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Robotics
  subject:
    topic: Robots
  subject:
    topic: Disruptive technologies
  classification: TJ211.495 .M56 2015
  classification: 629.8/92
  identifier: 9780525426974
  identifier: 0525426973
  record info:
    record content source: TOH
    record creation date: 150817
    record change date: 20170928104801.0
    record identifier: in00003596653