Robotic Basics An Introduction for Young People.
By Karen Liptak.
Drawings by Micheal Petronella with photographs.
Created and Produced by Arvid Knudson Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
copyright 1984.
ISBN: 0-13-782087-9.
48 pages with black & white illustrations and photographs on almost every page.
Chapter headings are
1. The origin of robots: Movie star robots, Asimov's rules, robots; their roots, electrical robots,
2. Programmable Robots: Birth of transistors, It's all in the chips, What is a robot?,
3. Robots for Hire: This is a robot?, Why employers chooser robots, friends or foes? Japan's
example, the next wave,
4. Personal Home Robots: The Next Great Home Appliance?; Fun, games and more; Robot fire-fighter,
Robot from a kit; Limitations; Users-needed--potential unlimited,
5. Robots busy everywhere: Bomb Squad robots, mail mobiles, hot cell robots, sick robots, robots
take a dive, robots to the stars, shuttle robots, a robot draft?, showboat.
6. How to Teach and Improve Robots: programming a robot, robots that listen and talk, robot vision,
watch out, the perfect touch, robots that think?, tomorrow's earth-shaker?,
7. New Robot Occupations: robot super servants, miracles for the handicapped, robots at school,
8. Robots Reproduce?: robot families planet wide, Assignment moon, cosmic miners and messengers,
timetable for self-replication,
9. Robotics wrap-up: people are precious, the deciding factor.