Lots of Things to Know About Robots

You'll never guess how tiny robots are helping bees, where giant robots are stopping traffic, what kinds of intrepid robots are exploring outer space and how clever robots learn to beat chess champions. Discover all this and lots more things to know about what robots can do, how they are designed and programmed and the part they will play in our future.

Chapters in this book include:
- Robots as old as grandparents
- What makes a robot a ROBOT?
- How are robots made?
- Chips for brains
- Step by step, by step, by step...
- The only numbers that robots need
- Getting smarter
- Why robots are like bats
- How robots smell
- Arms just like yours
- Super hands
- Power for robots
- Car builders
- Copying cats and other creatures
- Awwwww...
- ARGGHHH...
- SNEEZE-FREE PETS
- Chess grandmasters versus robots
- Robots in the skies
- Weatherdrones