Download or read book Humanoid Encounters 2010 2015 written by Albert S Rosales and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Cryptoterrestrials, Robots & more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Werewolves, Mermaids, Dwarves and even stranger exotic humanoids. Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases.
Download or read book Humanoid Encounters 2010 2015 written by Albert S. Rosales and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Cryptoterrestrials, Robots & more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Werewolves, Mermaids, Dwarves and even stranger exotic humanoids. Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases.
Download or read book Paranormal Encounters on Britain s Roads written by Peter A. McCue and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed book, Dr Peter McCue reflects on the enormous range of paranormal phenomena to have been reported along Britain's roads, and examines the theory that certain areas seem to be hotspots for such occurrences, such as the A75 and B721 roads in southern Scotland, and the Blue Bell Hill area in Kent. He delves into the sightings of apparitional vehicles; encounters with 'colliding apparitions'; 'phantom hitch-hikers'; out-of-place big cats; phantom black dogs; UFOs; 'missing time' (strange memory gaps); vehicle interferences (such as mysterious breakdowns); and incidents in which drivers and passengers seem to have been translocated in space or time. This thorough book debates the evidence and theories in a critical but open-minded way, and is a welcome addition to the genre.
Download or read book Humanoid Service Robots written by Moritz Merkle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on four empirical studies, Moritz Merkle examines the introduction of humanoid robots to the frontline service encounter in a customer-centric approach focusing on customer expectations and customer responses. The author identifies desirable robotic behavioral cues and shows that service robots meet great acceptance among customers. After service failures, customers are even more likely to forgive service robots than human employees. Further, he shows how crucial it is to manage customer expectations that depend on cultural dimensions and internal reference categories.
Download or read book Robotics written by Hugh Durrant-Whyte and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a flagship conference reflect the latest developments in the field, including work in such rapidly advancing areas as human-robot interaction and formal methods. Robotics: Science and Systems VII spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the algorithmic or mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, held in 2011 at the University of Southern California. The papers presented cover a wide range of topics in robotics, spanning mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics and control, human-robot interaction and human-centered systems, distributed systems, mobile systems and mobility, manipulation, field robotics, medical robotics, biological robotics, robot perception, and estimation and learning in robotic systems. The conference and its proceedings reflect not only the tremendous growth of robotics as a discipline but also the desire in the robotics community for a flagship event at which the best of the research in the field can be presented.
Download or read book The Humanoids written by Jack Williamson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleek androids have spread slowly through the galaxy, threatening human dominance, until a small band of rebels rise up against the humanoid tide.
Download or read book The Meme Humanoids written by Lon Strickler and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms written by Adam Spiers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates a biologically inspired method of robot arm control, developed with the objective of synthesising human-like motion dynamically, using nonlinear, robust and adaptive control techniques in practical robot systems. The control method caters to a rising interest in humanoid robots and the need for appropriate control schemes to match these systems. Unlike the classic kinematic schemes used in industrial manipulators, the dynamic approaches proposed here promote human-like motion with better exploitation of the robot’s physical structure. This also benefits human-robot interaction. The control schemes proposed in this book are inspired by a wealth of human-motion literature that indicates the drivers of motion to be dynamic, model-based and optimal. Such considerations lend themselves nicely to achievement via nonlinear control techniques without the necessity for extensive and complex biological models. The operational-space method of robot control forms the basis of many of the techniques investigated in this book. The method includes attractive features such as the decoupling of motion into task and posture components. Various developments are made in each of these elements. Simple cost functions inspired by biomechanical “effort” and “discomfort” generate realistic posture motion. Sliding-mode techniques overcome robustness shortcomings for practical implementation. Arm compliance is achieved via a method of model-free adaptive control that also deals with actuator saturation via anti-windup compensation. A neural-network-centered learning-by-observation scheme generates new task motions, based on motion-capture data recorded from human volunteers. In other parts of the book, motion capture is used to test theories of human movement. All developed controllers are applied to the reaching motion of a humanoid robot arm and are demonstrated to be practically realisable. This book is designed to be of interest to those wishing to achieve dynamics-based human-like robot-arm motion in academic research, advanced study or certain industrial environments. The book provides motivations, extensive reviews, research results and detailed explanations. It is not only suited to practising control engineers, but also applicable for general roboticists who wish to develop control systems expertise in this area.
Download or read book Social Robots written by Marco Nørskov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of, for example, caregiving, entertainment or partner robots, pose to our societies and to us as individuals seems to be limited by our technical limitations and phantasy alone. This collection contributes to the field of social robotics by exploring its boundaries from a philosophically informed standpoint. It constructively outlines central potentials and challenges and thereby also provides a stable fundament for further research of empirical, qualitative or methodological nature.
Download or read book Should Robots Have Standing The Moral and Legal Status of Social Robots written by Anne Gerdes and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Robot Culture written by Yuji Sone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Robot Culture examines social robots in Japan, those in public, domestic, and artistic contexts. Unlike other studies, this book sees the robot in relation to Japanese popular culture, and argues that the Japanese ‘affinity’ for robots is the outcome of a complex loop of representation and social expectation in the context of Japan’s continuing struggle with modernity. Considering Japanese robot culture from the critical perspectives afforded by theatre and performance studies, this book is concerned with representations of robots and their inclusion in social and cultural contexts, which science and engineering studies do not address. The robot as a performing object generates meaning in staged events and situations that make sense for its Japanese observers and participants. This book examines how specific modes of encounter with robots in carefully constructed mises en scène can trigger reflexive, culturally specific, and often ideologically-inflected responses.
Download or read book The Humanoids written by Jack Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. Slowly the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor. Only a hidden group of rebels can stem the humanoid tide ... if it's not too late.
Download or read book Humanoid Encounters 1900 1929 written by Albert S Rosales and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Intraterrestrials, Robots and more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Lightbeings, Skinwalkers and even stranger exotic humanoids. Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases.
Download or read book Software Architectures for Humanoid Robotics written by Lorenzo Natale and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humanoid Touch written by Jack Williamson and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1980 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humanoid was man's ultimate mechanical triumph and perfect servant. Keth Kyrone, son of the one member of Kai's ruling body who still believes in the menace of the humanoids, comes upon the secret force that could constitute man's only hope of defeating the machines. As the humanoids arrive and begin to take over, Keth undertakes the mission to awaken his race to what is happening to them.
Download or read book The Monster Book written by Nick Redfern and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters have been spotted everywhere, not just hiding under a child’s bed, lurking in the closet, or springing forth from folkloric tales. Exploring the history, mythology, pop culture, and the world of the supernatural, The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature is a comprehensive resource of the monster menagerie from around the world. Examining the lore and legends, as well as the first-person accounts of bizarre freaks of nature and spine-tingling paranormal entities, it details each beast with thorough research, while recounting the facts in an engaging narrative. This fascinating look at monsters investigates nearly 200 beings, beasts, freaks, and fiends, ranging from the renowned and celebrated to the little-known and inglorious, including Werewolves, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the chupacabra, Mothman, the Abominable Snowman, the Mongolian Death Worm, Living Pterosaurs, Alien Big Cats, Lizard Man, Lake Worth Monster, the Monstrous Monitor, South American Sasquatch, the Jersey Devil, Sea Serpents, Phantom Black Dogs, and much, much more.
Download or read book Natural Interaction with Robots Knowbots and Smartphones written by Joseph Mariani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.
