This book describes real-world killer robots using a blend of perspectives. Overviews of technologies, such as autonomy and artificial intelligence, demonstrate how science enables these robots to be effective killers. Incisive analyses of social controversies swirling around the design and use of killer robots reveal that science, alone, will not govern their future. Among those disputes is whether fully-autonomous, robotic weapons should be banned. Examinations of killers from the golem to Frankenstein's monster reveal that artificially-created beings like them are precursors of real 21st century killer robots. This book laces the death and destruction caused by all these killers with science and humor. The seamless combination of these elements produces a deeper and richer understanding of the robots around us.

The first book to develop standards for the criminal liability of artificial intelligence technologies

The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts. If there’s one universal trait among humans, it’s our social nature. The craving to connect is universal, compelling, and frequently irresistible. This concept is central to Robots and the People Who Love Them. Socially interactive robots will soon transform friendship, work, home life, love, warfare, education, and nearly every nook and cranny of modern life. This book is an exploration of how we, the most gregarious creatures in the food chain, could be changed by social robots. On the other hand, it considers how we will remain the same, and asks how human nature will express itself when confronted by a new class of beings created in our own image. Drawing upon recent research in the development of social robots, including how people react to them, how in our minds the boundaries between the real and the unreal are routinely blurred when we interact with them, and how their feigned emotions evoke our real ones, science writer Eve Herold takes readers through the gamut of what it will be like to live with social robots and still hold on to our humanity. This is the perfect book for anyone interested in the latest developments in social robots and the intersection of human nature and artificial intelligence and robotics, and what it means for our future.

Mark Vararrif, an alien from a the planet Trothal 200 light years away, has been living on the Earth for fifteen years. He lives with his wife Peggy, also an alien, and their son Nathan who has super strength. When Mark was seventeen Zarkoff, a killer and renegade alien, abducted him and together they crashed in the ocean near the south coast of England. Zarkoff resurfaces fifteen years later with a new face and identity now controlling the world's largest company, Multiplixo Robots. Most aliens think Zarkoff is dead but Mark knows different and finds it difficult to warn them about the disaster heading their way. Finally, other aliens become aware of the danger but it's too late to stop World War Three and the invasion of an alien spacecraft that threatens to destroy the major cities on Earth.

Comedian Patton Oswalt provides the foreword to this new, expanded edition of the award-winning NOT ALL ROBOTS, a dystopian satire about the robot overthrow that’s coming for us all! An uneasy co-existence develops between the newly intelligent robots and the ten billion humans living on Earth. Every human family is assigned a robot upon whom they are completely reliant. What could possibly go wrong? In the year 2056, robots have replaced human beings in the workforce. An uneasy co-existence develops between the newly intelligent robots and the ten billion humans living on Earth. Every human family is assigned a robot upon whom they are completely reliant. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the Walters, a human family whose robot, Razorball, ominously spends his free time in the garage working on machines which they’re pretty sure are designed to kill them in this sci-fi satire from Mark Russell (The Flintstones, Second Coming) and Mike Deodato Jr. (The Amazing Spider-Man, The Resistance). NOT ALL ROBOTS from AWA was honored by both the Eisner and Ringo Awards--the top awards given in the comic book industry--for Best Humor Comic Publication of 2022!

Poems and short stories from the 2012/2013 Primary 7 pupils of Mount Carmel Primary School, Kilmarnock, Scotland. www.mountcarmelprimary.co.uk

Mankind’s dependence on artificial intelligence and robotics is increasing rapidly as technology becomes more advanced. Finding a way to seamlessly intertwine these two worlds will help boost productivity in society and aid in a variety of ways in modern civilization. Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society is an essential scholarly resource that delves into the current issues, methodologies, and trends relating to advanced robotic technology in the modern world. Featuring relevant topics that include STEM technologies, brain-controlled androids, biped robots, and media perception, this publication is ideal for engineers, academicians, students, and researchers that would like to stay current with the latest developments in the world of evolving robotics.