{"id":129634,"date":"2021-10-28T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/living-with-robots-an-excellent-non-technical-overview-of-robotics"},"modified":"2021-10-28T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:22:28","slug":"living-with-robots-an-excellent-non-technical-overview-of-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/living-with-robots-an-excellent-non-technical-overview-of-robotics","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiving With Robots\u201d \u2014 An Excellent Non-Technical Overview Of Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-with-robots-an-excellent-non-technical-overview-of-robotics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final humorous argument I have is if one example is really a robot. Aylett and Vargas describe a \u201crobot\u201d as a humanoid machine that doesn\u2019t manipulate anything. It just provides information at a shopping center. How does that fit into their own definition of a robot? It sounds more like an overgrown tablet computer with wheels. However, that\u2019s a fun argument having nothing to do with the business value of whatever you want to call it.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This is a review of the third book sent to me recently by MIT Press, and the book is the best of the bunch. \u201c<a aria-label=\"Living With Robots\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/living-robots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/living-robots\">Living With Robots<\/a>,\u201d by Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas is a good, non-technical book that discusses a number of issues with robots in human society. This is excellent for both business managers and those more generally interested in both the promise and reality of robots in society.<\/p>\n<p>One exam of the accessibility of the material is in chapter 8 where there\u2019s a discussion on reinforcement learning. There are good theoretical examples and how reinforcement learning has risks in the real world. I really liked the part where the authors discuss blending simulation and real world testing.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters on understanding location, on movement, the sense of touch, and on other issues help describe the complexity and difficulty with integrating robots into society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final humorous argument I have is if one example is really a robot. Aylett and Vargas describe a \u201crobot\u201d as a humanoid machine that doesn\u2019t manipulate anything. It just provides information at a shopping center. How does that fit into their own definition of a robot? It sounds more like an overgrown tablet computer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}