Description
An engaging look at the global impact of robots and robotics that have an environmental impact, discovering how robots move, sense and make decisions in the service of humans.
By building ever smarter robots we can equip them with the ability to work better by themselves and perform varied and complex tasks. Super-smart robots can work for 2,000,000 hours, without human supervision, make 21,000,000,000,000 calculations per second and reach a top speed of 282.42 kilometres an hour among other stupendous things.
In this book, aimed at children aged 8+, readers can meet these super-smart robot and many more, then try a quick quiz to find out how much they have learned.
Books in the series:
Eco-Robots
Robot Explorers
Robot Helpers
Super-smart Robots
About the Author
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
Book Information
ISBN 9781526315946
Author Clive Gifford
Format Paperback
Page Count 32
Imprint Wayland
Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Weight(grams) 193g
Dimensions(mm) 306mm * 248mm * 8mm