Robot Futures

Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of ¿gaze tracking¿; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. Nourbakhsh examines the underlying technology and the social consequences of each scenario. He also offers a counter-vision: a robotics designed to create civic and community empowerment. His book helps us understand why that is the robot future we should try to bring about.