Length4h 11m
About this audiobook
A robot is a machine that senses the physical world, plans against a model of it, and acts on it through actuators — the sense-decide-act loop closed on the machine, in the machine's own time, without a person standing inside it. This structural guide builds every clause of that definition: the strict definition and its impostors; the robot families and the anatomy they all carry; the honest limits that make honest buyers of the field; the classic mistakes that sink projects before the first bolt; the principles — kinematics, dynamics, locomotion, fusion, feedback, and the safety envelope — that make the machine work at all; the build itself, from task analysis to ramp-up; the deployment that turns a demonstration into a production machine; the deep dive into actuators, sensors, and the software between them; the real deployments that paid and the frontier ones being graded; the trial that owns the signature; and the decade ahead, with its humanoids, its learned skills, and its honest
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GenreEducation and Learning
Length4 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
9Chapter 7: The Actuator and the Sense
2Introduction
10Chapter 8: The Deployments
3Chapter 1: The Definition
11Chapter 9: The Trial
4Chapter 2: The Limits
12Chapter 10: The Decade Ahead
5Chapter 3: The Mistakes
13References
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6Chapter 4: The Principles
14Connect
7Chapter 5: The Build
15About the Author
8Chapter 6: The Deployment
16Series Info
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