"This book provides an overview on the current state of library automation, addresses the need for changing personnel …The inevitability of library automation / Edward Iglesias -- Beyond the ILS: a new generation of library services … platforms / Marshall Breeding -- Automation and collection management: a short history and recent trends / Annette Bailey …

best practices and future developments in the field of automation and robotics"--Provided by publisher. …Assistive intelligent humanoid robot in human environment / Zulkifli Mohamed, Genci Capi -- Cooperative robots / Pablo … Sánchez-Sánchez, Marco A. Arteaga-Pérez -- Mobile robot path planning using Voronoi diagram and fast marching / S. Garrido, L …

"This book explores the theory and practice of educational robotics in the K-12 formal and informal educational … settings, providing empirical research supporting the use of robotics for STEM learning"--Provided by publisher. …1. Educational Robotics Theories and Practice: Tips for how to do it Right / Amy Eguchi -- 2. Designing evaluations for …

computing, and sociable robotics that allow humans to begin the once seemingly impossible task of interacting with robots …

"This book offers comprehensive coverage of the current research on the fields of robotics, machine vision, image … autonomous robot traversability estimation / Lazaros Nalpantidis, Ioannis Kostavelis, Antonios Gasteratos -- Gesture learning by … imitation architecture for a social robot / J.P. Bandera ... [et al.] -- Computer vision for learning to interact socially with …

, manufacturing robotics, human-robot interaction, bio-inspired robotics, control algorithms, and control systems"-- … fields that include: mathematical and computational methodologies in robotics, healthcare robotics, social robotics … morphogenesis -- Chapter 5. Improving dependability of robotics systems: analysis of sequence-dependent failures -- Chapter 6 …