City and town planning: architectural aspects

This book reviews whether the existing framework in place can effectively address breaches in the context of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS).

The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.

This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT2023, the Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, during November 22nd-24th, 2023.

This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT2023, the Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, during November 22nd-24th, 2023.

Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery.

This book presents research on the state-of-the-art methods and applications.

Nurses, midwives and health visitors have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.

Embark on a Journey to the Intersection of Art and TechnologyAttention: Are you fascinated by the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence and how it can revolutionize the world of art?

L'ouvrage traite de l'espace public à Rabat à travers une étude comparée de ses configurations et de son occupation sur le boulevard Mohammed V et le centre du nouveau quartier de Hay Riad, au sud.

This new book delves into how modern technologies-i.

If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible?

L'urbanisme qui a été réalisé en France depuis le milieu du siècle dernier est globalement médiocre, essentiellement ségrégatif, gravement déficient et nuisible en matière d'écologie et de santé.

Create high-tech walking, talking, and thinking robots"e;McComb hasn t missed a beat.

This book features the papers presented at IWAR 2023.

The motor vehicle technology covered in this book has become in the more than 125 years of its history in many aspects an extremely complex and, in many areas of engineering science .

For a long time, urban agriculture initiatives have been explored and novel policy and planning practices have been investigated.

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?

Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Big Ideas and their Development, Second Edition guides readers through the history and development of artificial intelligence (AI), from its early mathematical beginnings through to the exciting possibilities of its potential future applications.

¿Hay una ciencia de las ideas?

Las neurociencias están de moda.

La expresión "ciudad latinoamericana" remite hoy con exclusividad a las grandes metrópolis que crecen sin control, escenarios amenazantes de violencia e inseguridad.

¿De dónde vienen realmente los números y cómo llegan a nuestra mente?

¿Cómo pienso?

Entre los 5 y los 7 años de edad, casi todos los niños aprenden a leer.

¿Por qué, en pleno siglo XXI, seguimos creyendo en algo o alguien superior, llámese Dios, meditación trascendental, espiritualidad o sentido de la vida?

¿Por qué a la escuela le interesa la robótica?

Las fotografías suponen una particular forma de conocer la realidad social, pero también de crearla, entiende la historiadora Inés Yujnovsky en la introducción de este libro que, en vez de considerar la fotografía como reflejo de la realidad apunta a confrontar esas ideas y abordar este lenguaje como un agente de transformación.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of assistive robotics.

The book, written for a general educated public, compares the most important elements of the human nervous system to the corresponding capacities of robots.

Interest in control of climbing and walking robots has remarkably increased over the years.

Robot Hands and Multi-Fingered Haptic Interfaces is a monograph focusing on the comparison of human hands with robot hands, the fundamentals behind designing and creating the latter, and robotics' latest advancements in haptic technology.

Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have the real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both.

This book treats visual feedback control of mechanical systems, mostly robot manipulators.

The 210 articles which are divided into 18 sections in this new reference work represent the most recent findings in cybernetics and systems research.

These proceedings comprise about 50 contributions from experts worldwide.

AIICSR '97 (Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control Systems of Robots) is one of the most traditional East-West professional meetings devoted to artifical intelligence (AI) and its applications in robots.

This volume provides doctorate students and professionals with basic and advanced material on modelling and control of complex mechanical systems, with particular emphasis on robotic manipulators.

This volume contains the research papers for the final Workshop of European Robotics Network (ERNET).

Soft computing is the common name for a certain form of natural information processing that has its original form in biology, especially in the function of human brain.

The main focus of this book is on the uses of computer vision for inspection and model based matching.

The proceedings provide state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and assistive technologies.

This book presents an extensive survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation.

This volume focusses on the problem of planning in the context of robotics.

Advanced robot systems require sensory information to enable them to make decisions and to carry out actions in a versatile, autonomous way.

Automated manufacturing is the topic of the day in industry and thus also in R&D investigation in both industrial laboratories and academia.

This book explores a new rapidly developing area of robotics.

The Oxford University Robotics Research Group has been working for several years to improve the ability of automated guided vehicles.

This text features a broad array of research efforts in computer vision including low level processing, perceptual organization, object recognition and active vision.