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Robotics

Here are entered general works on the field concerned with the design, construction, application, etc. of robots.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Automation
• Machine theory

• Robotics -- Congresses
• Robotics -- History
• Robotics -- Periodicals
• Robotics -- Social aspects
• Robotics -- Study and teaching
• Robots -- Control systems

• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN

• Exploratory Workshop on the Social Impacts of Robotics: Summary and Issues (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (partial serial archives)

• Teaching Tech Together: How to Create and Deliver Lessons That Work and Build a Teaching Community Around Them (free online editions in English and Spanish; c2019), by Greg Wilson (illustrated HTML with commentary at teachtogether.tech)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Automation and Management (Boston: Harvard University, 1958), by James R. Bright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Automation: A Report to the UAW-CIO Economic and Collective Bargaining Conference Held in Detroit, Michigan, the 12th and 13th of November 1954 (Detroit: UAW-CIO Education Dept., 1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, contrib. by Walter Reuther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• The Age of Automation: Its Effects on Human Welfare (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1955), by Warner Bloomberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploratory Workshop on the Social Impacts of Robotics: Summary and Issues (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations, by National Research Council Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Automation: A Report to the UAW-CIO Economic and Collective Bargaining Conference Held in Detroit, Michigan, the 12th and 13th of November 1954 (Detroit: UAW-CIO Education Dept., 1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, contrib. by Walter Reuther (page images at HathiTrust)

• What Workers Should Know About Automation, and What Employers Don't Tell Them (New York : New York Labor News Co., ca. 1956), by Eric Hass and Stephen Emery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computerized Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education, and the Workplace (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities (prepublication version; 2019), by Solon Barocas, Moritz Hardt, and Arvind Narayanan (HTML with commentary at fairmlbook.org)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry (full serial archives)

• Journal of Library Innovation (2010-2015) (full serial archives)
• Information Technology and Libraries (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Library Automation (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)

• Current Cites (1990-) (full serial archives)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Following the Money: U.S. Finance in the World Economy, by Anne Y. Kester (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2008), by Karl J. Åström and Richard M. Murray (PDF at Caltech)
• Fundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control (c1997; errata corrected 2004), by M. Seron, J. Braslavsky, and Graham C. Goodwin (PDF in Australia)
• Synthesis of Feedback Systems (New York and London: Academic Press, 1963), by Isaac M. Horowitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Basic Synchros and Servomechanisms (2 volumes; New York: J. F. Rider, c1955), by Nooger & Neville Van Valkenburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Control System Components (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by John E. Gibson and Franz B. Tuteur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1948), by Norbert Wiener (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Future of Air Traffic Control: Human Operators and Automation, ed. by Christopher D. Wickens, Anne S. Mavor, Raja Pasasuraman, and James P. McGee (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Automation: A Report to the UAW-CIO Economic and Collective Bargaining Conference Held in Detroit, Michigan, the 12th and 13th of November 1954 (Detroit: UAW-CIO Education Dept., 1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, contrib. by Walter Reuther (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electronic Signatures in Law (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2016), by Stephen Mason (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Economic Control of Interconnected Systems (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1959), by Leon K. Kirchmayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at Wayback Machine)

• Information Technology for Manufacturing: A Research Agenda (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Computing Life (NIH publication 10-5861; 2010), by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)

• Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information in Warfare (1999), ed. by Zalmay Khalilzad, John P. White, and Andrew W. Marshall (PDF files at rand.org)

• Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Automation of America's Offices, 1985-2000 (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment (2 volumes; Washingon: National Academy Press, 1986-1987), ed. by Heidi I. Hartmann, Robert E. Kraut, and Louise Tilly
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II (Case Studies and Policy Perspectives): page images with commentary at NAP

• Automation of America's Offices, 1985-2000 (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Information Technology in the Service Society: A Twenty-First Century Lever (1994), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.