Title
The robotics divide [electronic resource] : a new frontier in the 21st Century? / Antonio López Peláez, editor.
ISBN
9781447153580 electronic book
1447153588 electronic book
9781447153573
Published
London : Springer, [2013]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 221 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4471-5358-0 doi
Call Number
TJ211
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.892
Summary
Societies survive in their environment and compete with each other depending on the technology they develop. Economic, military and political power are directly related to the available technology, while access to technology is key to the well-being of our societies at the individual, community and national level. The Robotics Divide analyzes how robotics will shape our societies in the twenty-first century; a time when industrial and service robotics, particularly for military and aerospace purposes, will become an essential technology. The book, written by experts in the field, focuses on the main technological trends in the field of robotics, and the impact that robotics will have on different facets of social life. By doing so, the authors aim to open the "black box" of a technology which, like any other, is designed, implemented and evaluated according to the economic and cultural patterns of a cosmopolitan society, as well as its relations of power. The Robotics Divide explores future developments in robotics technology and discusses the model of technological development and the implementation of robotics in this competitive market economy. Then the authors examine to what extent it is possible to determine the characteristic features of the robotic divide, namely in what ways the robotic divide differs from the digital divide, and how a model to integrate this technology can be developed without reproducing patterns of inequality and power that have characterized the advent of previous technologies. These issues - inequality, robotics and power - are of concern to robotics and advanced automation engineers, social scientists, economists and science policy experts alike.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 20, 2013).
21st-century Robotics: From the Factory to the Private Realm
Perspectives on Industrial Robotics
Perspectives on Service Robotics
Military and Aerospace Robotics
Robotics and Social Stratification
Public Opinion and Technology Assessment: Perspectives on Advanced Robotics
The Robotics Divide: Lessons from the Digital Divide
Dependency, Social Work and Advanced Automation
Inequalities in the Information Society: From the Digital Divide to Digital Inequality
Prospective Techno economic Analysis for the Post-crisis World
Economics, Robotics and Power
Social Interaction and On-line and Off-line Robotics: Perspectives on Web Robots
The Robotics Divide: Characteristics, Trends and Scenarios in the 21st Century.
