Robots on the move

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Roger Bridgman

Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the advanced intelligence of robots with feelings. Young readers will be amazed to learn all that robots can do: perform delicate surgical operations, clean city sewers, work as museum tour guides, or even battle each other in combat. Find out how humans have created these mechanical minds and bodies. Annotation. Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots from their earliest days through to the advanced intelligence of future robots with feelings. Including machines that perform delicate surgical operations and those that clean our sewers, to those that work as museum tour guides and even battle each other in combat, this book has timeliness of robots and a list of websites make this a complete guide to the world of robotics.

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Ann Fullick

Provides a basic description of ecology and food webs, explains how these, along with changing environments, drive adaptation and evolution, and how and why these adaptations are passed down to future generations.

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Peter Cook and Scott Manning

Discusses the history of computers and explains their various parts and uses, hardware, software, the Internet, good computer etiquette, and their future. Sidebars answer questions asked on the authors' radio show.

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Charles B. Myers, C. Barry Knisley

A selection of articles discussing various aspects of the environmental problem including its history, the causes and effects, people's reactions, and outlook for the future.