First Robots
Download First Robots PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get First Robots book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
FIRST Robots: Aim High
Author: Vince Wilczynski
language: en
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Release Date: 2007-05-01
Personal robots are about as advanced today as personal computers were on the eve of the first IBM PC in the early 1980s. They are still the domain of hobbyists who cobble them together from scratch or from kits, join local clubs to swap code and stage contests, and whose labor of love is setting the stage for a technological revolution. This book will deconstruct the 30 regional winning robot designs from the FIRST Robotics Competition in 2006. The FIRST Robotics Competition (held annually and co-founded by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers) is a multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. In 2005 the competition reached close to 25,000 people on close to 1,000 teams in 30 competitions. Teams came from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., and almost every U.S. state. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events that have gained a loyal following because of the high caliber work featured. Each team is paired with a mentor from such companies as Apple, Motorola, or NASA (NASA has sponsored 200 teams in 8 years). This book looks at 30 different robot designs all based on the same chassis, and provides in-depth information on the inspiration and the technology that went into building each of them. Each robot is featured in 6-8 pages providing readers with a solid understanding of how the robot was conceived and built. There are sketches, interim drawings, and process shots for each robot.
FIRST Robots: Rack 'N' Roll
More than 750 photographs The second annual book highlighting the creativity and process behind 30 winning robot designs from the 18th annual, international FIRST Robotics Competition. The FIRST organization, founded by Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway) promotes education in the sciences, technology and engineering in collaboration with sponsors including Motorola, Xerox, NASA, Delphi, General Motors and other companies invested in science education. This competition has been highlighted by major news organizations like NBC, CNN, Business Week online, and more, making this a high-profile, much anticipated yearly event among competitors and robot enthusiasts and the book will be a must-have item for those attending and participating in the events.
Robots
Take a look at how a robotic arm is designed, how engineers are devising examples that can be controlled by the human brain just like a real arm, and how the science of electronics allows the robot to interpret electrical signals and move in response. Find out about sensors, code and programming, explore fascinating robots from drones and space rovers to medical robots, and meet some of the world's most famous robots. Try activities such as designing your own rescue robot to squeeze into small spaces.Inject some fun into STEAM topics, with these lively examinations of buildings, robots, computers, vehicles, materials and space! This bright, colourful new series aims to inspire children aged 8 and up with a lifelong love of STEAM subjects.