Androids, cyborgs, and robots in contemporary culture and society /

"This book provides a forum for the cybernetics field in critical emerging technologies, including research into design, engineering, and technological aspects of cyborg creation and existence alongside humankind for issues in their potential acceptance, participation, policy, governance, and r...

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Group Author: Thompson, Steven John, 1956
Published: IGI Global, Engineering Science Reference,
Publisher Address: Hershey, PA :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Advances in computational intelligence and robotics (ACIR) book series,
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Summary: "This book provides a forum for the cybernetics field in critical emerging technologies, including research into design, engineering, and technological aspects of cyborg creation and existence alongside humankind for issues in their potential acceptance, participation, policy, governance, and requisite socialization between individualization and corporate, global, networked, mechanized human and humanized machine experiences"--
Carrier Form: xxxii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781522529736
152252973X
Index Number: TJ211
CLC: TP18
TP24
Call Number: TP24/A574
Contents: Giving robots a voice : testimony, intentionality, and the law -- Girls building androids and robots : equality in STEM with the media program Annedroids -- Are you really a child? android and cyborgs in Japanese comics and animations -- Mecha-media : how are androids, cyborgs, and robots presented and received through the media? -- Mechanology, mindstorms, and the genesis of robots -- Cyborgization : pros and cons -- Could robots feel pain? how can we know? -- Graphical user interface for the control of a bidped robot.