THE BEST AND BIGGEST ROBOTICS BOOK ON THE BLOCK—NOW BETTER THAN EVER—SUPERCHARGED WITH TWO TOP ROBOTICS AUTHORS!

Thousands of robot hobbyists — and robots — grew up on the first two editions on this book. Now Gordon McComb has partnered with fellow robotics enthusiast Myke Predko — and together they’ve made this classic guide to building your very own robot more awesome than ever. Inside Robot Builder’s Bonanza you’ll find detailed plans for constructing robots that walk, see, feel, talk, listen, think — and more!
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The Robot Builder s Bonanza.

 

From car manufacturing to the production of niche products, welding is now one of the most widespread and successful applications of industrial robotics.

Welding Robotics: Technology, System Issues and Application is a detailed overview of robotic welding at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The last few years-worth of evolution in robotic welding are described, illustrating their rapid innovations and featuring:
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Welding Robots-Technology System Issues and Applications

Processor Design addresses the design of different types of embedded, firmware-programmable computation engines. Because the design and customization of embedded processors has become a mainstream task in the development of complex SoCs (Systems-on-Chip), ASIC and SoC designers must master the integration and development of processor hardware as an integral part of their job. Even contemporary FPGA devices can now accommodate several programmable processors. There are many different kinds of embedded processor cores available, suiting different kinds of tasks and applications.
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Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs

Robotics, Second Edition is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system. It is the only book available that takes the reader through a step-by step design process in this rapidly advancing specialty area of machine design.
This book provides the professional engineer and student with important and detailed methods and examples of how to design the mechanical parts of robots and automated systems. Most robotics and automation books today emphasis the electrical and control aspects of design without any practical coverage of how to design and build the components, the machine or the system. The author draws on his years of industrial design experience to show the reader the design process by focusing on the real, physical parts of robots and automated systems.
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Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery

Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts of this complex field. The author addresses all the pertinent topics of the electronic hardware and software of mobile robot design, with particular emphasis on the more difficult problems of control, navigation, and sensor interfacing.
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Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots: Inside the Mind of an Intelligent Machine

Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots offers students and other interested readers an overview of the technology of mobility — the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks — including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It discusses all facets of mobile robotics, including hardware design, wheel design, kinematics analysis, sensors and perception, localization, mapping, and robot control architectures.
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Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)