Your Future With Robots

While at Barnes and Noble last weekend, I found a fantastic Special Edition on Robotics by Scientific American.  The heading of the report is “Your Future With Robots, How Smart Machines Will Change Everything.” It’s an 88-page magazine jam-packed with eleven feature articles.  I highly recommend that you get down to your local bookstore and pick it up for $5.95. The issue says “Display until May 2008” but they could run out before then.

The first article is by Bill Gates.  I know, what does he know about robots considering he can’t even make Vista right?  But, it’s still a good read. By the way, you can read this article online for free on Scientific American’s site: A Robot in Every Home.  It’s free since it was originally published their regular January 2008 issue.

The other ten articles are:

Rise of the Robots
by Hans Moravec

The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
by Ray Kurzweil

Robots vs. Humans: Who Should Explore Space?
by Francis Slakey and Paul D. Spudis

An Army of Small Robots
by Robert Grabowski, Luis E. Navarro-Serment and Pradeep K. Khosla

Swarm Smarts
by Eric Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz

Go Forth and Replicate
by Moshe Sipper and James A. Reggia

Ballbots
by Ralph Hollis

Artificial Muscles
by Steven Ashley

Controlling Robots with the Mind
by Michael A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin

Innovations from a Robot Rally
by W. Wayt Gibbs