G.Inspired by dance, Choreo Graph invites you to explore graphs and coordinate geometry to choreograph a character’s dance moves or create an interesting scene with moving parts. Michael Tanner NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.Luke Timothy Johnson THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE.Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE NEW TESTAMENT.Raymond Wacks THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS.Michael Cook LANDSCAPES AND CEOMORPHOLOGY.Mark Dodgson and David Gann INTELLIGENCE.Michael Benton THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE.Manfred Steger THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL.John Matthews and David Herbert GEOPOLITICS.Brian and Deborah Charlesworth EXISTENTIALISM.John Pinder and Simon Usherwood EVOLUTION.Geraldine Pinch EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.Fred Piper and Sean Murphy DADA AND SURREALISM.Julian Stallabrass CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY.Mary Beard and John Henderson CLAUSEWITZ.Robin Le Poidevin AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS.John Parker and Richard Rathbone AGNOSTICISM.Very Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 978–0–19–969598–0 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd, Gosport, Hampshire
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Alan Winfield 2012 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in 2012 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. By introducing robots in this way this book builds a conceptual, non-technical picture of what a robot is, how it works, and how "intelligent" it is. Not surprisingly, these parts each have a biological equivalent: a robot's camera is like an animal's eyes, a robot's microcomputer is equivalent to an animal's brain, and so on. Alan Winfield introduces the subject by looking at the parts that together make a robot. This Very Short Introduction explains how it is that robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, and how robots can be both ordinary and remarkable. Yet despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s, when it was widely thought-by scientists as well as the public-that we would have, by now, intelligent robots as butlers, companions, or co-workers.
Robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and have seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Robotics is a key technology in the modern world, a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, or moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order.
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