Robot Revolution

California Newsreel (Firm) (Added Author). Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) (Added Author). Infobase (Added Author).

Summary: Professor Rodney Brooks has had one enduring ambition his entire life: to build machines that can truly think. He's been doing so since he was eight years of age, tinkering obsessively in the backyard garage. At the forefront of a stunning period in robotic history, today Professor Brooks and his dedicated team of scientists are certain they're about to make a technological breakthrough as they race to customize the world's first truly socially interactive humanoid robot.

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col.
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electronic resource (video)
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2008.

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General Note:	Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 13, 2014. Films On Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Formatted Contents Note:	A Robot Challenge (2:10) -- Revolutionary Robot (1:28) -- Interactive Robot Domo (2:21) -- Making Robots Safe (2:27) -- The Race for the Household Robot (2:20) -- Honda's Asimo Robot (1:15) -- Robot Autonomy (2:54) -- Perceptional Problems for the PlayGo Robot (2:53) -- Early Obstacle Avoiding Robots (2:01) -- Six Legged Genghis Robot (1:13) -- Biomimetics (1:33) -- Trial and Error Process (2:03) -- Robotic Assistance in Manufacturing (2:51) -- Robots to Assist the Elderly (3:07) -- Japanese Acceptance of Robots (2:55) -- Learned Social Intelligence (2:59) -- Human Tendency to Anthropomorphize (1:18) -- Robotic Independent Decision Making (2:10) -- Military Robots (3:05) -- Robot Ethics (1:46) -- Robotic Reliability (4:54) -- Credits: Robot Revolution (1:02)
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Target Audience Note:	7 & up.
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