Build Your Own Humanoid Robots

Serious enought to interest robot professionals, the plans insides offer serious fun to hobbyists. They give you the power to breathe life into a mechanical being with amazingly human qualities, and feature all the instructions you need for programming the inexpensive chips that give you humanoid brains and sensitivity

Robot Builders Cookbook

Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics, electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used by students and design engineers worldwide. This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education tackling microcontroller-based practical work.

Robot Programmer's Bonanza

Perfect for the new breed of hobbyist who doesn?t want tobuild from scratch

The first book on the market for the ?new? robot enthusiast,this groundbreaking guide teaches you a new simulationlanguage that controls sophisticated robotic actions.

Robot Builders Bonanza
Third Edition

Everybody's favorite amateur robotics book is bolder and better than ever -- and now features the field's "grand master" Myke Predko as the new author! Author duo McComb and Predko bring their expertise to this fully-illustrated robotics "bible" to enhance the already incomparable content on how to build -- and have a universe of fun -- with robots. Projects vary in complexity so everyone from novices to advanced hobbyists will find something of interest.

Ever wonder what to do with those discarded items in your drawer? Now you can use electronic parts from old walkmans, spare remote controls, even paper clips to build your very own autonomous robots and gizmos. Get step by step instructions from the Junkbot masters for creating simple and fun self guiding robots safely and easily using common and not so common objects from around the house or within a quick shopping trip away.

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Learning robotics by yourself isn’t easy, but it helps when the encouragement comes from an expert who’s spent years in the field. Not only does Author David Cook assist you in understanding the component parts of robot development, but he also presents valuable techniques that prepare you to achieve new discoveries on your own.

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Finally, a robots book for people who don’t know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Robots is well written, inviting, and action packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots and robot related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and "schools" of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots.

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Intermediate Robots Building

Intermediate Robot Building offers the kind of real world knowledge that only an experienced robot builder can offer the kind of knowledge beginners usually have to learn through mistakes. In this book, you’ll learn the value of a robot heartbeat and the purpose of the wavy lines in photocells. You’ll find out what electronic part you should sand. You’ll discover how a well placed switch can help a robot avoid obstacles better than a pair of feelers. And you’ll avoid mistakes that can cause a capacitor to explode.

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