Robographics: Robot Explorers

An engaging look at the global impact of robots and robotics, discovering how robots move, sense and make decisions in the service of humans

List of contents

• 1: Robot explorers
• 2: Strange places
• 3: Airborne exploration
• 4: Speed kings
• 5: Robo-probes
• 6: Deep-water explorers
• 7: Walking and rolling
• 8: Desert explorers
• 9: Android astronauts
• 10: Finding the way
• 11: Roving round Mars
• 12: Robot swarms
• 13: Future explorers
• 14: Quiz
• 15: Glossary and further information
• 16: Index

About the author

Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk

Summary

An engaging look at the global impact of robots and robotics, discovering how robots move, sense and make decisions in the service of humans

Foreword

An engaging look at the global impact of robots and robotics, discovering how robots move, sense and make decisions in the service of humans

Product details

• Authors: Clive Gifford
• Publisher: Wayland
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781526316363
• ISBN: 978-1-5263-1636-3
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 238 mm x 290 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Robographics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / How Things Work-Are Made, Interest age: from c 8 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales)