Through expanded intelligence, the use of robotics has fundamentally transformed a variety of fields, including manufacturing, aerospace, medicine, social services, and agriculture.
THETORONTO STAR'S 30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRINGThe updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the citys unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkableWhat is the 'Toronto look'?
This book explores the authors' legal thinking on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of burgeoning interest in the technology sector and among the general public.
Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city.
This thought-provoking book takes readers on a captivating journey through the realms of green urbanism, urban regeneration, and urban design, development, and preservation, providing an exploration of innovative approaches to creating sustainable and thriving cities of the future.
Take your ROS skills to the next level by implementing complex robot structures in a ROS simulationKey FeaturesLearn fundamental ROS concepts and apply them to solve navigation tasksWork with single board computers to program smart behavior in mobile robotsUnderstand how specific characteristics of the physical environment influence your robot's performanceBook DescriptionConnecting a physical robot to a robot simulation using the Robot Operating System (ROS) infrastructure is one of the most common challenges faced by ROS engineers.
Work through a mix of amazing robotic projects using the Raspberry Pi Zero or the Raspberry Pi 3About This BookEasy to follow instructions, yet the ones that help you build powerful robots, and exclusive coverage of mobile robots with the Pi ZeroBuild robots that can run, swim and fly and the cutting-edge dimension of robotics that is possible with the Raspberry Pi Zero and Pi 3Interact with your projects wirelessly and make sci-fi possible, right in your homeWho This Book Is ForThis book is for hobbyists and programmers who are excited about using the Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi Zero.
Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellin links the discourses of informal urbanism and spatial justice in the context of public space-based governmental programmes to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America.
Cities have been sites of some of the most visible manifestations of the evolution of processes of globalization and population expansion, and global cities are at the cutting edge of such changes.
Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK.
London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape.
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth's famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries.
Environmental changes have significant impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements.
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.
Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena.
This new book explores the dynamic integration of soft robotics and biomedical sciences, emphasizing a human-centered approach on how soft robotic technologies may fundamentally alter the healthcare sector, from personalized treatment to cutting-edge medical equipment.
A bold vision that empowers communities to solve our cities' most pressing problemsAmid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice challenges everything you thought you knew about ';dull' and daunting government budgets.
Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellin links the discourses of informal urbanism and spatial justice in the context of public space-based governmental programmes to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America.
This book presents the first systematic overview and analysis of the deep connection between Scharoun and China, offering insights into East-West cultural exchange and enriching existing understandings of modernism.
An exploration of Johannesburg's post-apartheid's city administration's governance of conflict from 1996 to the current day, in the case of service delivery protests and shifts in city policy.
An exploration of Johannesburg's post-apartheid's city administration's governance of conflict from 1996 to the current day, in the case of service delivery protests and shifts in city policy.
From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.
From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.
