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Rehabilitation Robots for Neurorehabilitation in High, Low, and Middle Income Countries: Current Practice, Barriers, and Future Directions describes the state-of-art research of stroke rehabilitation using robot systems in selected High Income Countries (HICs) and Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), along with potential solutions that enable these technologies to be available to clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status. The book brings together engineers and clinicians, offers insights into healthcare disparities, and highlights potential solutions to facilitate the availability and accessibility of more robot systems to stroke survivors and their clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status.In addition, the book provides examples on how robotic technology is used to bridge rehabilitation gaps in LMICs and describes potential strategies for increasing the expansion of robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation across more LMICs.

Welche Wirkungen haben Robotik und Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) auf die Gesellschaft? Wie verändern Algorithmen und Machine Learning unser soziales Umfeld? Vor welchen ethischen Herausforderungen stehen wir? Vorliegendes Buch bietet zu diesen und weiteren Fragen systematische Analysen. Allgemeine und spezielle Roboterkonzepte von Androiden über Social Robots bis hin zu kollaborativen Industrierobotern werden vorgestellt. Hinzu treten Drohnen im militärischen und zivilen Einsatz sowie diverse Formen der Mensch-Maschine-, Tier-Maschine- und Pflanze-Maschine-Interaktion. Verschiedene Begriffe und Paradigmen der KI werden auch abseits der Informatik herausgearbeitet, reale und spekulative Entwicklungen eingeordnet. Vor diesem Hintergrund geraten ethisch-gesellschaftliche Brennpunkte in den Blick. Beispiele, Aufgaben, vertiefende Infos zu Hintergründen und Übersichten laden zum kritischen Weiterdenken ein. Es bildet den dritten, in sich abgerundeten Teil der Buchreihe Grundlagen derTechnikethik.Haben wir die Zukunft, die wir brauchen, und brauchen wir die Zukunft, die wir haben?

1. EARLY HISTORY OF ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY. 2. ELEMENTS OF THE TECHNOLOGY. 3. WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE? WHAT IS REALITY?. 4. APPLICATIONS. 5. CHALLENGES FOR ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY. APPENDIX 1. RESPONSES TO POLLING. APPENDIX 2. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

The book provides a snapshot of practices used by contemporary designers, researchers, and artists who create objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. They draw from a range of domains and traditions, and represent a fascinating, inspiring, and revealing cross-section of contemporary maker and data culture.

A detailed exploration of implementing Internet of Drones technologies into real-world applications, with the emphasis on solutions to architectural challenges, providing a clear overview of standardization and regulation, implementation plans, and privacy concerns, along with its uses in many areas.

This book discusses the radical technological changes occurring due to Industry 4.0, with a focus on offering a better understanding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It also presents a detailed analysis of interdisciplinary knowledge, numerical modeling and simulation, and the application of cyber-physical systems, where information technology and physical devices create synergic systems leading to unprecedented efficiency. The book focuses on industrial applications of automation and robotics. It covers recent developments and trends occurring in both computer-aided manufacturing techniques, as well as computer-aided assembly techniques. Robots using embedded systems and artificial intelligence applications are also covered. Industrial Automation and Robotics: Techniques and Applications offers theoretical results, practical solutions, and guidelines that are valuable for both researchers and those working in the area of engineering.

This book covers a variety of problems, and offers solutions to some, in:Statistical state and parameter estimation in nonlinear stochastic dynamical system in both the classical and quantum scenariosPropagation of electromagnetic waves in a plasma as described by the Boltzmann Kinetic Transport EquationClassical and Quantum General RelativityIt will be of use to Engineering undergraduate students interested in analysing the motion of robots subject to random perturbation, and also to research scientists working in Quantum Filtering.

This book, Differential Drive Robots, A Primer for College Students, is aimed at introductory robotics courses in Universities and Colleges. It introduces the theory of robotic kinematics, a discussion of robot control architectures, sensors, navigation, and robot vision. It is based on a standard two-wheel differential drive robot system and is therefore applicable to many commercial and in-house robot kits. The material is informed by contemporary robot technology.All software described in the book is non-commercial and freely downloadable from the internet.The book emerged from the author's teaching a second year University robotics course. It contains a mix of theory, examples, and suggestions for computer code. Learning and teaching resources which accompany the book chapters are freely available from the author, details for which are in the book. This book forms part of a series 'Breakfast with Dr.C' that started when he was teaching at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.The author is currently Principal Lecturer Computing at the University of Worcester (UK) where he has been teaching for some twenty years. Prior to that he taught Physics at the Catholic Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of over seventy academic journal and conference publications in computing, game design, and physics. His most recent work involved teaching elementary children to code using animated stories (Story Writing Coding).

On the one side, Industrial competitiveness today means shorter product lifecycles, increased product variety, and shorter times to market and customized tangible products and services. To face these challenges, the manufacturing industry is forced to move from traditional management, control, and automation approaches towards industrial cyber-physical systems.On the other side, several emergent engineering approaches and related Information-Communication-Control-Technologies, such as Multi-Agent-Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Plug-and-Produce Systems, Cloud and Fog Technologies, Big Data and Analytics, among others, have been researched during the last years. The confluence of those results with the latest developments in Industrial Digitalization, Systems-of-Cyber-Physical-Systems Engineering, Internet-of-Things, Internet-of-Services, and Industry 4.0 is opening a new broad spectrum of innovation possibilities.The PERFoRM (Production-harmonizEd-Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery) approach is one of them. It teaches the reader what it means when production machines and systems are digitalized and migrated into Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems and what happens when they are networked and start collaborating with each other and with the human, using the internet.After a Technology Trend Screening and beyond a comprehensive state-of-the-art analysis about Industrial Digitalization and Industry 4.0-compliant solutions, the book introduces methods, architectures, and technologies applicable in real industrial use cases, explained for a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, and industrialists.

Discover the Exciting World of 3D Printing! Are you a: DIY Enthusiast? Artist? Computer Programmer? Scientist or Engineer? Fashion or Interior Designer? or just a person with an insatiable curiosity and desire to create? If so, Peter Goodwin's 3D Printing Unleashed: 7 Key Questions Answered Inside is the book you've been waiting for! Inside, he explains the many wonders of 3D printing: Creating objects exactly as you imagine them Controlling the time and space of fabrication Taking your creative impulses further Sharing your skills and ideas with people around the world Forming amazing shapes by whim - or through cunning calculation and Watching your designs and ideas take shape layer by layer-right before your eyes! 3D Printing can literally make your dreams into realities - Order Now! When you read 3D Printing Unleashed: 7 Key Questions Answered Inside, you'll discover how this amazing technology works, its history, and how to apply it to your daily life and projects. You'll find out how this device is changing paradigms as a new generation of designers works and learns in 3D. The future is wide open! This book offers practical tips and advice for Designing in 3D, Choosing the Materials to Work With, and Using the Internet with 3D Printing. You'll even discover helpful, up-to-date advice about buying your very own 3D printer! Don't wait - It's time to unleash your fullest creative potential! Order your copy of 3D Printing Unleashed: 7 Key Questions Answered Inside right away! You'll be so happy you did!

This book talks about the coming exploitation of the moon for materials and manufacturing. This has a lot of precedents in things like the California and Alaskan gold rushes. There is a need for infrastructure on the lunar surface, and that is in the design phase. Major challenges remain in who owns what, and conflicts can be expected. All in all, an exciting time is coming. What we learn on the moon, we can mostly apply on Mars. And, why stop there?With Commercial firms involved and interested in mining the moon and asteroids, Earth will have to develop more complex "Space Law" to address who owns what and who benefits. In the past, the new frontiers, America, the Yukon, the "West" were mostly wild and ungoverned, at least at first. Hopefully, we will think this thing through, so no corporation or Nation-state will be able to enrich themselves, at the cost of others. This involves interpretation od the Outer Space Treaty, signed by most nations. Of particular interest are sites on the lunar surface with resources that could be mined, areas of total or no sunlight. Looks like we will need a legal cadre to sort out the details. But, there is some precedent in Antarctica. What is the most valuable thing on the moon? Well, if you want something light weight that is worth bringing back to Earth, that wuld be Helium-3, of use in a new generation of fusion reactors that would be less costly, and much less dangerous. Probably the next thing would be water, and we would use that in-situ both for greenhouses, but also cracked down, with solar power, to its constituent hydrogen and oxygen. That's rocket fuel, good for the return trip, or for going out further. That's rocket fuel that doesn't have to be carried up from Earth by...more rocket fuel. Also, the oxygen supply for lunar bases could come from local sources, until we get the Greenhouses going. There's always a need for spare oxygen.

Aerial Robotic Workers: Design, Modeling, Control, Vision and Their Applications provides an in-depth look at both theory and practical applications surrounding the Aerial Robotic Worker (ARW). Emerging ARWs are fully autonomous flying robots that can assist human operations through their agile performance of aerial inspections and interaction with the surrounding infrastructure. This book addresses all the fundamental components of ARWs, starting with the hardware and software components and then addressing aspects of modeling, control, perception of the environment, and the concept of aerial manipulators, cooperative ARWs, and direct applications. The book includes sample codes and ROS-based tutorials, enabling the direct application of the chapters and real-life examples with platforms already existing in the market.

Should robotic production of factor of technology be caused to economic development? Economic development is driven by man towards the goal of whose own choice. Such development is brought about through "" economies of scope"", which are achieved through organization and strategic management, ultimately expressed as technological investment. Economics is about the behavioral systems by which human organise production and consumption. As such, it obeys the rules of systems, which include time, information and energy. It also requires an appreciation that technological innovations to machine tools and computers have always been a part of the economic process, and can't be treated as variable factor, some kind of analytical optional extra. I shall explain why the success of technological innovation is central to economy. Is (AI) production of factor technological innovation into the industrial base of new products or processes, including modifications to existing process equipment which significantly reduce its cost of operation? The physical difference between industrialised countries and the developed high (AI) production of factor technological countries is the technological hardware, i.e. the factories, distribution systems and all the fixed capital investment which have accumulated. technological innovation is really effort to influence our economic development nowadays.

This SpringerBrief presents novel methods of approaching challenging problems in the reconstruction of accurate 3D models and serves as an introduction for further 3D reconstruction methods. It develops a 3D reconstruction system that produces accurate results by cascading multiple novel loop detection, sifting, and optimization methods.The authors offer a fast point cloud registration method that utilizes optimized randomness in random sample consensus for surface loop detection. The text also proposes two methods  for surface-loop sifting. One is supported by a sparse-feature-based optimization graph. This graph is more robust to different scan patterns than earlier methods and can cope with tracking failure and recovery. The other is an offline algorithm that can sift loop detections based on their impact on loop optimization results and which is enabled by a dense map posterior metric for 3D reconstruction and mapping performance evaluation works without any costly ground-truth data.The methods presented in Towards Optimal Point Cloud Processing for 3D Reconstruction will be of assistance to researchers developing 3D modelling methods and to workers in the wide variety of fields that exploit such technology including metrology, geological animation and mass customization in smart manufacturing.

This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcomes of the first Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2020).It contains peer-reviewed contributions from a theoretical as well as practical vantage point and is topically structured according to the following four sections: It discusses (I) Novel Approaches for Efficient Production and Assembly Planning, (II) Smart Production Systems and Data Services, (III) Advances in Manufacturing Processes and Materials, and (IV) New Concepts for Autonomous, Collaborative Intralogistics.Given the restrictive circumstances of 2020, the conference was held as a fully digital event divided into two parts. It opened with a pre-week, allowing everyone to peruse the scientific contributions at their own pace, followed by a two-day live event that enabled experts from the sciences and the industry to engage in various discussions. The conference has proven itself as an insightful forum that allowed for an expertly exchange regarding the pivotal Advances in Automotive Production and Technology.

This book aims to critically assess the Cartesian stance that affirms robotic and AI technologies as candidates to supplant human capacities in non-routine intellectual nature activities based on social power relations. In the argumentation listed, the contradictions that this hypothesis approaches will be exposed, mainly in a historical and social analysis based on a complex and uncertain sociological perspective, added by a discussion within the scope of the Chaos theory. Finally, an outline of the current era, fostered by extremisms and extremists, will be described in terms of its contradictions in an attempt at sociological analysis. For this, some crucial and unsettling questions will be asked, and an effort to come up with answers will be made for some.