[Nettime-bold] book announcement--Goldberg

[Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU>]

I thought readers of the NETTIME-L might be interested in this book.  For 
more information, please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262072254/  Thank you!

Best,
Jud

Beyond Webcams
An Introduction to Online Robots
edited by Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart

Remote-controlled robots were first developed in the 1940s to handle 
radioactive materials. Trained experts now use them to explore deep in sea 
and space, to defuse bombs, and to clean up hazardous spills. Today robots 
can be controlled by anyone on the Internet. Such robots include cameras that 
not only allow us to look, but also go beyond Webcams: they enable us to 
control the telerobots' movements and actions.

This book summarizes the state of the art in Internet telerobots. It includes 
robots that navigate undersea, drive on Mars, visit museums, float in blimps, 
handle protein crystals, paint pictures, and hold human hands. The book 
describes eighteen systems, showing how they were designed, how they function 
online, and the engineering challenges they meet.

Ken Goldberg is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations 
Research and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University 
of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of The Robot in the Garden (MIT 
Press, 2000). Roland Siegwart is Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of 
Technology in Lausanne.

7 x 9, 346 pp., 158 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-07225-4

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Jud Wolfskill
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The MIT Press
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Cambridge, MA  02142
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