Introduction -- How smart are robots? -- A robot's brain -- Autonomy -- Artificial intelligence -- Botton-up robotics -- HELLO, MY NAME IS: Elmer and Elsie -- Uses of bottom-up robotics -- Top-down robotics -- Machine learning -- Supervised learning -- Unsupervised learning -- Learning like us: neural networks -- Learning from demonstration -- HELLO, MY NAME IS: Baxter -- ROBOT CHALLENGE: is learning worth the effort? -- Learning through play -- Learning together -- Robot Rights -- Robot responsibilities -- Living with smarter robots.
Summary:
Robots are all around you. As robotics technology improves, robots are poised to take on even more important jobs, making your life easier, safer, and cooler! A robot has to have some sort of computing ability to do its job. But how smart are robots, really? What do they know and what can they do? Can they learn like us--and could they ever get too smart?
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