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Build Your Own Robot

Build Your Own Robot

This book a compilation of articles from Karl Lunt's long-running column for Nuts & Volts magazine is a must-read for all beginner and intermediate-level robotics enthusiasts. Written in a friendly straightforward manner it contains entertaining anecdotes as well as practical advice and instruction. The author's stories about his various robotics projects will inspire you to try them yourself; and he shares his tips and code to help you. Possible projects range from transforming a TV remote control into a robot controller to building a robot from a drink cooler. You'll want to build them all; the author's enthusiasm for robotics is contagious! | Build Your Own Robot

GBP 31.99
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Robot Souls Programming in Humanity

Robot Souls Programming in Humanity

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Looking closely at the human blueprint it contains a suite of capacities that are so clumsy they have generally been kept away from AI. It was assumed that robots with features like emotions and intuition that made mistakes and looked for meaning and purpose would not work as well as robots without this kind of code. But on considering why all these irrational properties are there it seems that they emerge from the source code of soul. Because it is actually this ‘junk’ code that makes us human and promotes the kind of reciprocal altruism that keeps humanity alive and thriving. Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our ‘junk code’ in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI. The book author Eve Poole received an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to education and gender equality. | Robot Souls Programming in Humanity

GBP 22.99
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An Anthropology of Robots and AI Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

An Anthropology of Robots and AI Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intelligent autonomous and social and weaved into lived social realities. Richardson charts the move away from the “worker” robot of the 1920s to the “social” one of the 2000s as robots are reimagined as companions friends and therapeutic agents. | An Anthropology of Robots and AI Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

GBP 35.99
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Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

The term “mechatronics” was coined in 1969 merging “mecha” from mechanism and “tronics” from electronics to reflect the original idea at the basis of this discipline that is the integration of electrical and mechanical systems into a single device. The spread of this term and of mechatronics itself has been growing in the years including new aspects and disciplines like control engineering computer engineering and communication/information engineering. Nowadays mechatronics has a well-defined and fundamental role in strict relation with robotics. Drawing a sharp border between mechatronics and robotics is impossible as they share many technologies and objectives. Advanced robots could be defined as mechatronic devices equipped with a “smart brain” but there are also up-to-date mechatronic devices used in tight interaction with humans that are governed by smart architectures (for example for safety purposes). Aim of this book is to offer a wide overview of new research trends and challenges for both mechatronics and robotics through the contribution of researchers from different institutions providing their view on specific subjects they consider as “hot topics” in both fields with attention to new fields of application new challenges to the research communities and new technologies available. The reader of this book will enjoy the various contributions as they have been prepared with actual applications in mind along a journey from advanced actuators and sensors to human-robot interaction through robot control navigation planning and programming issues. The book presents several state-of-the-art solutions like multiple-stage actuation to cope with conflicting specification of large motion-spans ultra-high accuracy model-based control for high-tech mechatronic systems modern approaches of software systems engineering to robotics aand humanoids for human assistance. The reader can also find new techniques in approaching the design of mechatronic systems in some possible industrial and service robotics scenarios with a particular attention for the interaction between humans and mechanisms. | Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

GBP 39.99
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A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects Monsters Maniacs and More

A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects Monsters Maniacs and More

A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters Maniacs and More is an introduction to special effects makeup using cost-effective tools and materials that can be found in local stores. The book is divided into three sections – Simple Makeup Advanced Materials and Techniques and Advanced Makeup – and features tutorials to create characters such as a pirate vampire ghost robot burn victim witch zombie and goblin. Each character is introduced with a full-page photograph of the finished makeup and illustrated with full-color step-by-step photographs. The book also includes instructions on how to make fake teeth apply bald caps create gory wounds and injuries and make simple prosthetics. Each makeup tutorial is designed to progressively build on the techniques outlined in the preceding tutorial guiding readers from the basics of foundation highlight and shadow to creating advanced creature makeups. This is a beginner makeup book suited for students of Stage Makeup courses as well as for the theatre technician working and training on their own. | A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects Monsters Maniacs and More

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Deep Learning in Computer Vision Principles and Applications

Deep Learning in Computer Vision Principles and Applications

Deep learning algorithms have brought a revolution to the computer vision community by introducing non-traditional and efficient solutions to several image-related problems that had long remained unsolved or partially addressed. This book presents a collection of eleven chapters where each individual chapter explains the deep learning principles of a specific topic introduces reviews of up-to-date techniques and presents research findings to the computer vision community. The book covers a broad scope of topics in deep learning concepts and applications such as accelerating the convolutional neural network inference on field-programmable gate arrays fire detection in surveillance applications face recognition action and activity recognition semantic segmentation for autonomous driving aerial imagery registration robot vision tumor detection and skin lesion segmentation as well as skin melanoma classification. The content of this book has been organized such that each chapter can be read independently from the others. The book is a valuable companion for researchers for postgraduate and possibly senior undergraduate students who are taking an advanced course in related topics and for those who are interested in deep learning with applications in computer vision image processing and pattern recognition. | Deep Learning in Computer Vision Principles and Applications

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Against Automation Mythologies Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots

Against Automation Mythologies Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots

Inspired by Roland Barthes’s practice of semioclasm in Mythologies this book offers a technoclasm; a cultural critique of US narratives discourses images and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the rise of the robots. Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions this book foregrounds automation’s ideologies exaggerations failures and mystifications of the social value of human labor in order to question accepted and prolific automation mythologies. Jesse Ramirez offers a study of automation that recognizes automation as a technosocial project that uses the tools of cultural studies and history to investigate the narratives and ideologies that often implicitly frame the automation debate and that concretely and soberly assesses the technologies that have made the headlines. The case studies featured include some of the most widely cited and celebrated automatic technologies such as the Baxter industrial robot the self-driving car and the Watson AI system. An ideal resource for anyone interested in or studying emerging technology and society automation Marxist cultural theory cultural studies science fiction studies and the cultural history of technology. | Against Automation Mythologies Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots

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Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s. Written in two parts Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artists like Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel used it to sample the sounds of everyday life. It also focuses on E-mu Systems and the use of its keyboards and drum machines in hip-hop. The second part follows users across a range of musical worlds including US/UK garage indie folk music and electronic music made from the sounds of sewers war zones and crematoriums. Using material from interviews and concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) Digital Sampling provides a new and alternative approach to the study of sampling and is crucial reading for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including music technology media communication and cultural studies. | Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

GBP 36.99
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Designing Robots Designing Humans

Designing Robots Designing Humans

Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this point in history. Robotic design is advancing at an incredible pace and consequently the role of robots has expanded beyond mechanical work in the industrial sector to the social and domestic environment. From kitchen table pets in the shape of dinosaurs or baby seals to robot arms that assist with eating to self-driving cars this book explores the psychological impact of robotic engagement especially in domestic settings. Each chapter explores a different aspect of humanoid robotics for example the relationship between robotics and gender citizenship moral agency ethics inequality and psychological development as well as exploring the growing role of robots in education care work and intimate relationships. Drawing on research from across the fields of psychology anthropology and philosophy this ground-breaking volume discusses the emerging social side of robotics. By examining our relationship with robots now this book offers a new and innovative opportunity for understanding our future with robots and robotic culture. Designing Robots Designing Humans will be interest to researchers of artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics as well as researchers from cognitive and social psychology philosophy computer science anthropology linguistics and engineering backgrounds.

GBP 38.99
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Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm

Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm

Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This updated and revised edition is designed to be essential reading for general readers undergraduate students in the fields of criminology and sociology and those preparing to embark on degree courses in these fields. Written by field-leading experts from across the globe and designed for those who want a clear and exciting introduction to the complex areas of crime and deviance this book provides short overviews of a wide range of social problems harms and criminal acts offering a series of cutting-edge and critical treatments of issues such as war and terrorism incels and the alt-right ecocide trolling hate crime and chemsex. A guide is also given to further readings and films to develop the reader’s understanding of these issues. This new edition has been fully revised and extended with new entries on robot sex protest child soldiers online abuse cybercrime drug trafficking gangs and weapon use. Shades of Deviance encourages readers to critically reconsider their ideas about what is right and wrong about what is socially harmful and which problems we should focus our attention on. It offers careful analysis and reasoned explanation of complex issues in a world in which sensationalist headlines anxiety and fear about crime permeate our lives. Read it to be prepared for some of the key debates shaping the world to come. | Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm

GBP 24.99
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Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama Serial Connections

Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama Serial Connections

Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama: Serial Connections is a consideration of some of the key examples of serial television drama available via transnational streaming platforms in recent times. Through the individual works examined the book exemplifies the ways in which aesthetics technology and capitalism weave a complex social fabric around the production of the respective television series thus presenting this type of serial drama as a finely engineered cultural production. Taking Bernard Stiegler’s notion of an image warfare as its starting point the author critically investigates the strategies deployed by the shows’ producers to navigate this dynamic shaped by the new spirit of capitalism. With creativity intrinsic to the process on the one hand and a highly efficient drive for capturing and fixing attention driven by algorithm and economic logic on the other the author maps the processes at work in the production of high-value serial drama and considers how despite this tension they manage to present meaningful insights into the experience of being in this world: A world shaped by trauma a desire for justice and a search for systems of belief that can offer a way through the vicissitudes of contemporary life. Framed by a detailed analysis of the multiple processes that shape these works is a sustained analysis of the serials Mr Robot Billions The Leftovers Rectify and Westworld and the dynamics of despair and hope that ripple through them. As such it will appeal to readers of film and television studies cultural theory and those interested in furthering a critical aesthetics for our time. | Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama Serial Connections

GBP 38.99
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The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking

The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking

In this fully updated second edition award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the Hollywood game and shows you how to finance cast shoot and show your indie feature documentary episodic series short film student film web video or big-budget blockbuster. Once labeled a cheerful subversive by The New York Times Mirvish shares lessons he's learned personally from film luminaries Robert Altman Christopher Nolan Emma Thomas Steven Soderbergh Rian Johnson Whit Stillman Harold Ramis Lynn Shelton John Carpenter Ava DuVernay the Russo Brothers Bong Joon-ho Sean Baker and more. This revised edition includes brand new chapters on filming during a global pandemic finding investors and crowdfunding backers whether and where to go to film school how to get a big Hollywood agent self-distributing your film even to airlines casting an Oscar®-winner as your lead actor and turning your garage into a 1980s New York subway Visit the extensive companion website at www. DanMirvish. com for in-depth supplemental videos behind-the-scenes footage from Dan's films and bonus materials. | The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking

GBP 35.99
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Automation Innovation and Work The Impact of Technological Economic and Social Singularity

Automation Innovation and Work The Impact of Technological Economic and Social Singularity

Artificial intelligence will not necessarily create a super-intelligent “human robot”; however it is very probable that intelligent robots and intelligent informats will bring about a form of super-globalization in which money and goods are prioritized over people and democracy and where the widespread use of casual labour – that is short-term contracts – will become the most common form of employment relationship. It is also very likely that artificial intelligence will bring about what is known as singularity. This term is used to describe a situation where intelligent robots from a rational and logical perspective are smarter than humans i. e. the development of AI. This book explores the impact that these intelligent robots and intelligent informats will have on social and societal development. The author tackles the question of singularity from three distinct standpoints: technological singularity – the intelligence of machines compared to that of humans – which he argues will bring about a qualitatively new labour market; economic singularity – the consequences for work relationships value creation and employment – which he asserts will promote full automation result in precarious contracts with low salaries and in some countries possibly lead to the introduction of a universal basic income; and social singularity – the consequences of technological and economic singularity for democratic processes bureaucratic procedures for exercising authority and control and the direction in which society will develop in addition to the emergence of new social institutions – which Johannessen says will promote a transition from representative democracy to genuine democracy. The book will appeal to academics researchers and students of economic sociology and political economy as well as those focusing upon the emerging innovation economy. It will also find an audience among professionals and policymakers keen to understand the impact the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have on organizations individuals and society at large. | Automation Innovation and Work The Impact of Technological Economic and Social Singularity

GBP 38.99
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