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You're reading from Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Build intelligent robots that perform human tasks using AI techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835442

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Francis X. Govers III

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI

2. Setting Up Your Robot FREE CHAPTER

3. A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process

4. Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning

5. Picking up the Toys

6. Teaching a Robot to Listen

7. Avoiding the Stairs

8. Putting Things Away

9. Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

10. Conclusions and Reflections

11. Assessments

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Questions

What is your favorite movie robot? How would you describe its personality?
What techniques did the movie-makers use to express that robot's personality (body language, sounds, and so on)?
What are the two types of chatbots? List some of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
In the diagram on modeling custom distributions (the airport example), the bottom picture shows two standard distributions and two uniform distributions. Why don't the curves go all the way to the top of the graph?
Design your own robot emotions. Pick six contrasting emotions that can express the entire range of your robot's personality. Why did you pick those?

If you were designing a robot to have the personality of an annoying little boy (think Bart Simpson, Cartman, or Dennis the Menace, if you are that old), what traits would it have?
Why is it important for the robot to...

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Authors (1)

Francis X. Govers III

Francis X. Govers III is an Associate Technical Fellow for Autonomy at Bell Textron, and chairman of the Textron Autonomy Council. He is the designer of over 30 unmanned vehicles and robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped lead the design of the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and telemetry systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas. He has a Master of Science degree from Brandeis University and is a veteran of the US Air Force.

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