Lots of Things to Know About Robots - Hardcover

Maclaine, James; Cowan, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1805074423 ISBN 13: 9781805074427

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

James Maclaine (Author) <br /> 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.<br /><br />Laura Cowan (Author) <br /> 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.<br /><br />

Edition details

• Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805074423
• ISBN 13: 9781805074427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Susanna Rumiz
• Number of pages: 64