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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.607
EAN: 9781582345925
ISBN: 1582345929
Label: Bloomsbury USA
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Sales Rank: 2992
Studio: Bloomsbury USA
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Product Description:
An inspired and hilarious look at how humans can defeat the inevitable robot rebellion—as revealed by a robotics expert.
How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous “smart” house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the keys to quashing a robot mutiny.
From treating laser wounds to fooling face and speech recognition, besting robot logic to engaging in hand-to-pincer combat, How to Survive a Robot Uprising covers every possible doomsday scenario facing the newest endangered species: humans. And with its thorough overview of current robot prototypes—including giant walkers, insect, gecko, and snake robots—How to Survive a Robot Uprising is also a witty yet legitimate introduction to contemporary robotics. Full of cool illustrations, and referencing some of the most famous robots in pop-culture, How to Survive a Robot Uprising is a one-of-a-kind book that is sure to be a hit with all ages.
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Rating:  - Yep, I'm a Dead Man
When I was in second grade, I was asked to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up.I wrote "Robot Maker."That was before I discovered that robot making wasn't about design so much as it was about programming.And programming meant math.I'm an English major.
Decades later, I finally got the chance to purchase my very own robot: a Roomba.I fell in love with my little Roomba, Red, until it died on me and started backing up in circles.After months of tinkering with it, where ... Read More
Rating: - One more comparison to Zombie Survival Manual
The The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Deadtaught us how to survive if the undead started coming after us, trying to eat our brains and force us to join their ranks. But zombies do not exist, nor could they. They are pretend. Robots are not. Wilson looks at the research currently being conducted on robotics and extrapolates the future of robotics from this. He examines each kind of robot, their strengths and weaknesses, and lets us know how best to defeat the robots when (or ... Read More
Rating: - Be Prepared
How to Survive a Robot Uprising- This book was more non-fiction than I would have thought.Sure it has some pretty funny lines, but it is very educational on the state of current robotics and technology that will inhabit future robots.Given recent new about man-hunting robots, this book is kinda scary.It isn't a hands down survival guide the way that the Zombie survival guide was, but it was fairly good.It is on the short side, but it was feeling kinda stretched by that point anyways.I would recommend ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Much There
This is cute, but it is no Zombie Survival Guide.There is very little in the way of step by step instruction, and it is more of an outline that a survival guide.
Rating: - Very dissapointed
While I realize that How To Survive a Robot Uprising is supposed to be a work of comedy I was also expecting some half-serious advice on how to destroy circuits and complex mechanical systems, skills which would be crucial in surviving an actual robot uprising. The author avoids this task and instead just states the obvious for two hundred pages or abuses very tired robot cliches in order to get a cheap laugh (such as the fact that we should avoid robots with glowing red eyes and "zig zag" to avoid being killed ... Read More
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