A collection of amazing random access facts about the world of robots and how they work.
You'll never guess how tiny robots are helping bees, where giant robots are stopping traffic, what kinds of intrepid robots are exploring outer space and how clever robots learn to beat chess champions. Discover all this and lots more things to know about what robots can do, how they are designed and programmed and the part they will play in our future.
Chapters in this book include:
- Robots as old as grandparents
- What makes a robot a ROBOT?
- How are robots made?
- Chips for brains
- Step by step, by step, by step...
- The only numbers that robots need
- Getting smarter
- Why robots are like bats
- How robots smell
- Arms just like yours
- Super hands
- Power for robots
- Car builders
- Copying cats and other creatures
- Awwwww...
- ARGGHHH...
- SNEEZE-FREE PETS
- Chess grandmasters versus robots
- Robots in the skies
- Weatherdrones
James Maclaine has written books about meerkats, general knowledge and manners, come up with countless drawing, doodling and colouring ideas, and devised puzzles and things to do for a range of activity books. His Junior Illustrated Thesaurus is the book that he wishes he'd had as a child. Laura studied literature twice at university, so she's read a lot of books (always helpful when writing them). Before joining Usborne, she taught English in Barcelona, Dublin and Cambridge. She now lives in East London, where she regrets the lack of sun and sea.
Age: From 6 years
Hardback
James Maclaine, Laura Cowan, Susanna Rumiz
64 pages
H: 257mm W: 192mm Spine: 10mm
Weight: 400 grams