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What Is a Robot?: In the Age of AI and Robotics: Human Happiness, Health, Healthy Longevity, and THE RUN AT 150 PROJECT
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Series: Run at 150 Project, Book 102
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ISBN13: 9798193848035
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What Is Robotics? explores robotics not simply as machines that replace human labor, but as a foundation of an emerging civilization in which robots and artificial intelligence may transform work, industry, daily life, medicine, care, health, happiness, and the human future.
What is robotics?
Why did humans begin creating robots?
What is robotics?
Why did humans begin creating robots?
How do robots sense, move, and respond to their surroundings?
How have industrial robots transformed human labor?
What changes when artificial intelligence and robotics are combined?
Will robots replace human jobs or create new forms of work?
How might medical and care robots transform health and aging?
And in an era looking toward healthy longevity to 150, how might robots support a longer, healthier, and more independent human life?
Beginning with these questions, the book explores the principles and history of robotics, sensors and actuators, industrial and service robots, autonomous machines, humanoid robots, AI and robotics, employment, medicine and care, safety and ethics, and the future of robotic civilization.
Human beings have long created tools to overcome the limitations of physical strength, speed, endurance, and precision. Tools developed into machines, machines into automated systems, and automation increasingly into robots capable of sensing and responding to the physical world.
Robots already perform repetitive, dangerous, and highly precise tasks in industry. Their roles are expanding into logistics, medicine, disaster response, space exploration, transportation, homes, and many other areas of human activity.
Artificial intelligence is transforming robotics again. Earlier robots generally followed predetermined instructions, while AI-supported robots are increasingly able to interpret information, recognize patterns, adapt to changing environments, and perform more complex tasks.
Yet progress in robotics does not automatically produce positive outcomes. Changes in employment, accidents, responsibility, privacy, surveillance, military applications, and excessive human dependence on machines raise important social and ethical questions.
The central question of the future is therefore not merely how intelligent or humanlike robots will become, but how human beings will choose to design and use them.
Robotics may become especially important in aging societies. Robots that assist mobility, rehabilitation, physical work, daily activities, and care may help people preserve independence and remain active for longer periods of life.
This book connects robotics, artificial intelligence, humanity, work, industry, medicine, care, health, happiness, and healthy longevity within a new philosophy of robotic civilization.
Through the human-centered vision of THE RUN AT 150 PROJECT, it imagines a future in which robots do not push human beings aside but help people continue moving, working, learning, creating, and participating in society throughout longer and healthier lives.
What Is Robotics? is not a book only for robotics specialists. It is a philosophy of robotic civilization for everyone seeking to understand the changing relationship between humans and machines in the Age of AI.
How have industrial robots transformed human labor?
What changes when artificial intelligence and robotics are combined?
Will robots replace human jobs or create new forms of work?
How might medical and care robots transform health and aging?
And in an era looking toward healthy longevity to 150, how might robots support a longer, healthier, and more independent human life?
Beginning with these questions, the book explores the principles and history of robotics, sensors and actuators, industrial and service robots, autonomous machines, humanoid robots, AI and robotics, employment, medicine and care, safety and ethics, and the future of robotic civilization.
Human beings have long created tools to overcome the limitations of physical strength, speed, endurance, and precision. Tools developed into machines, machines into automated systems, and automation increasingly into robots capable of sensing and responding to the physical world.
Robots already perform repetitive, dangerous, and highly precise tasks in industry. Their roles are expanding into logistics, medicine, disaster response, space exploration, transportation, homes, and many other areas of human activity.
Artificial intelligence is transforming robotics again. Earlier robots generally followed predetermined instructions, while AI-supported robots are increasingly able to interpret information, recognize patterns, adapt to changing environments, and perform more complex tasks.
Yet progress in robotics does not automatically produce positive outcomes. Changes in employment, accidents, responsibility, privacy, surveillance, military applications, and excessive human dependence on machines raise important social and ethical questions.
The central question of the future is therefore not merely how intelligent or humanlike robots will become, but how human beings will choose to design and use them.
Robotics may become especially important in aging societies. Robots that assist mobility, rehabilitation, physical work, daily activities, and care may help people preserve independence and remain active for longer periods of life.
This book connects robotics, artificial intelligence, humanity, work, industry, medicine, care, health, happiness, and healthy longevity within a new philosophy of robotic civilization.
Through the human-centered vision of THE RUN AT 150 PROJECT, it imagines a future in which robots do not push human beings aside but help people continue moving, working, learning, creating, and participating in society throughout longer and healthier lives.
What Is Robotics? is not a book only for robotics specialists. It is a philosophy of robotic civilization for everyone seeking to understand the changing relationship between humans and machines in the Age of AI.
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