Where Do Robots Go to Cry?

Where Do Robots Go to Cry?
Author: Christopher Thompson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-10-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524664790

Delaney is back! Chris Thompsons third novel is the long-awaited sequel to The Io Incident. Richard Delaney must return to Jupiter and face the unknown. What he finds is astonishing and more terrifying than anyone had ever imagined. A vessel of immense size and complexity emerges from the Jovian clouds. Crewed by machines that bring a messagea message that all life is about to become extinguished. Who can be trusted, and who must be sacrificed for the good of all? And why have they chosen him?

Aphelion Ascending

Aphelion Ascending
Author: Christopher Thompson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665581336

The long awaited fourth book from sci-fi author, Christopher Thompson is an exciting collection of eight mind-blowing stories into the unknown. Previously unpublished works including, Neutral Ground in which it is possible for people from anywhere in the world to meet through an ageing stasis system. The World That Wasn’t There, a mystery planet threatens the safety of Earth and those who go to investigate its sudden and unexplained appearance. Ghost Ship finds eighteenth century sailors encountering a vessel seemingly crewed by dead men! Each tale presents an intriguing journey into the realms of science fiction that will appeal to readers of all ages.

Robots Don't Cry!

Robots Don't Cry!
Author: Bob Byrne
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781847170057

Bimbot is thrown out of the tree-house gang for being a crybaby. Robots don't cry, Rusty, Klunk and Klang tell him. In the woods Bimbot meets a skunk with no smell, a bee with no stripes and a bear who is afraid of heights. Can his new friends help him out? The first book from an original and exciting new author.

The Wild Robot Escapes

The Wild Robot Escapes
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316475181

The sequel to thebestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot,about what happens when nature and technology collide.

Robots

Robots
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625791518

Their future depends on oursã Here, some of the most advanced carbon-based minds in science fiction offer their own unique perspectives on the complex and conflicted future relationships between mankind and his most brilliant creations--some funny, some sad, some bizarre, some terrifying, and all beyond anything ever imagined. _Itsy Bitsy SpiderÓ by James Patrick Kelly _Robots Don't CryÓ by Mike Resnick _London, Paris, Banana . . . _ by Howard Waldrop _La MacchinaÓ by Chris Beckett _WarmthÓ by Geoff Ryman _Ancient EnginesÓ by Michael Swanwick _Jimmy Guang's House of GladmechÓ by Alexander C. Irvine _DropletÓ by Benjamin Rosenbaum _Counting Cats in ZanzibarÓ by Gene Wolfe _The Birds of Isla MujeresÓ by Steven Popkes _Heirs of the PerisphereÓ by Howard Waldrop _The Robot's Twilight CompanionÓ by Tony Daniel At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Robot Rumpus

Robot Rumpus
Author: Sean Taylor
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467764760

When a young girl's parents go out for the evening, they think they've left their daughter in safe hands with robots designed to get her to bed! There's Cook-bot to make great spaghetti for dinner, Clean-bot to do the washing-up, Wash-bot for bath time, and even Book-bot for a bedtime story. What could possibly go wrong?

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781536435078

Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

The New Breed

The New Breed
Author: Kate Darling
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1250296110

For readers of The Second Machine Age or The Soul of an Octopus, a bold, exciting exploration of how building diverse kinds of relationships with robots—inspired by how we interact with animals—could be the key to making our future with robot technology work There has been a lot of ink devoted to discussions of how robots will replace us and take our jobs. But MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert Kate Darling argues just the opposite, suggesting that treating robots with a bit of humanity, more like the way we treat animals, will actually serve us better. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking don’t leave room for the robot technology that is soon to become part of our everyday routines. Robots are likely to supplement—rather than replace—our own skills and relationships. So if we consider our history of incorporating animals into our work, transportation, military, and even families, we actually have a solid basis for how to contend with this future. A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, The New Breed explains how the treatment of machines can reveal a new understanding of our own history, our own systems, and how we relate—not just to nonhumans, but also to one another.

What Social Robots Can and Should Do

What Social Robots Can and Should Do
Author: J. Seibt
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 161499708X

Social robotics drives a technological revolution of possibly unprecedented disruptive potential, both at the socio-economic and the socio-cultural level. The rapid development of the robotics market calls for a concerted effort across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines to understand the transformative potential of human-robot interaction. This effort cannot succeed without the special expertise in the study of socio-cultural interactions, norms, and values that humanities research provides. This book contains the proceedings of the conference “What Social Robots Can and Should Do,” Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in October 2016. The conference is the second event in the biennial Robophilosophy conference series, this time combined with an event of the Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics (TRANSOR). Featuring 13 plenaries and 74 session and workshop talks, the event turned out to be the world’s largest conference in Humanities research in and on social robotics. The book is divided into 3 sections: Part I and Part III contain the abstracts of plenary lectures and contributions to 6 workshops: Artificial Empathy; Co-Designing Children Robot Interaction; Human-Robot Joint Action; Phronesis for Machine Ethics?; Robots in the Wild; and Responsible Robotics. Part II contains short papers for presentations in 7 thematically organized sessions: methodological issues; ethical tasks and implications; emotions in human robot interactions; education, art and innovation; artificial meaning and rationality; social norms and robot sociality; and perceptions of social robots. The book will be of interest to researchers in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, robotics, computer science, and art. Since all contributions are prepared for an interdisciplinary readership, they are highly accessible and will be of interest to policy makers and educators who wish to gauge the challenges and potentials of putting robots in society.