Download or read book Robotics in Practice written by Joseph F. Engelberger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE REAL THING by Isaac Asimov Back in 1939, when I was still a teenager, I began to write (and publish) a series of stories about robots which, for the first time in science fiction, were pictured as having been deliberately engineered to do their job safely. They were not intended to be creaky Gothic menaces, nor outlets for mawkish sentiment. They were simply well-designed machines. Beginning in 1942, I crystallized this notion in what I called 'The Three Laws of Robotics' and, in 1950, nine of my robot stories were collected into a book, I, Robot. I did not at that time seriously believe that I would live to see robots in action and robotics becoming a booming industry .... Yet here we are, better yet, I am alive to see it. But then, why shouldn't they be with us? Robots fulfil an important role in industry. They do simple and repetitive jobs more steadily, more reliably, and more uncomplainingly than a human being could - or should. Does a robot displace a human being? Certainly, but he does so at a job that, simply because a robot can do it, is beneath the dignity of a human being; a job that is no more than mindless drudgery. Better and more human jobs can be found for human beings - and should.

Download or read book Genes Girls and Gamow written by James D. Watson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of Jim Watson's life, following on from The Double Helix, the story of his and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA (published in 1968). Here is Watson adjusting to new-found fame, carrying out tantalizing experiments and falling in love.

Download or read book The Noble Buyer written by Judith Zilczer and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1978 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book about the collector of modern art, John Quinn, was published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens in 1978. Quinn was a New York attorney and among the foremost of modern art patrons. He amassed a large collection, including more than fifty paintings by Pablo Picasso, sculpture by Contantin Brancusi and numerous examples of the most important post-Impressionists, Cubists, Fauves, etc. Full catalog entries."--Publisher's description.

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