About this title: The thesis of this book is that while "traditional" industrial robotics may currently be languishing in the technological doldrums, the way now lies open for robots and roboticists to exploit an almost limitless range of potential applications in the expanding service sector of the economy. Part I describes the current state and future potential of the various "enabling technologies" - sensors, vision, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, etc - which are now available for use in service robots. Engelberger stresses that although AI research still has a long, long way to go ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1989-09-07
ISBN-13:9780262050425ISBN:0262050420
Description: Fair. This is an ex library copy. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780262050425ISBN:0262050420
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. 0262050420 248 pp, list of figures, list of color plates, preface, 17 chapters in two parts-I. Robotics Technoology Update. II. Service Applications, further reading, index. The usual ex-library stampings, call number tags, etc., or traces where they have been removed, else text clean, binding tight. Shows little sign of prior use. 6.4" x 9.5" black cloth boards in gray DJ (24 oz) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780262050425ISBN:0262050420
Description: Fair in good dust jacket. mark on top edge. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 248 p. Audience: General/trade. Robots can play a major role in the service industries. And it is in that direction that robotics needs to turn, Joseph Engleberger asserts, not toward the routine factory jobs of the past. Engleberger was instrumental in founding the robotics industry and his book Robotics in Practice is now a classic. In Robotics in Service he observes that the time is ripe for robotics to launch ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780262050425ISBN:0262050420
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. dj v. sl rubbed, corners sl bumped. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 248 p. Audience: General/trade. Errata on fig. 13.1 and 14.4 included as an inserted slip. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kogan Page, London
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781850913580ISBN:1850913587
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. 248 p. Includes Illustrations. Early ed. from Great Britain, inscribed and signed by author on 1/2 title pg (light soil noted). Interior clean & tight with photos, some color. Shelfworn DJ. PRICE REDUCED, Summer '09 Sale! read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: First Edition, 1st printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780262050425ISBN:0262050420
Description: As New. First Edition, 1st printing of this brand new fine hardcover in fine dustjacket; brand new with ever so slight wear to upper edge of dustjacket. Book store stamp on outer edge of textblock. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A. : Mit Pr, 1989
Date Published: 1989-09-07
ISBN-13:9780262050425ISBN:0262050420
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Dust Jacket Included New and Unread, Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardback, 1989, First edition. Lisa-231. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer
Date Published: 1989-02-28
ISBN-13:9781850913580ISBN:1850913587
Description: Good. Good Condition. Hardcover EDITION. There is light wear to the cover and page edges. The binding is tight. First-Class customer service is our trademark. I PROCESS your order with SPEED and CARE. 901APO/FPO orders welcomed! Orders processed every day! Thanks for shopping with us on Alibris! read more
Description: Good. 0262050420 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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