| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 221 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Antonio López Peláez -- From the Digital Divide to the Robotics Divide? Reflections on Technology, Power, and Social Change / Antonio López Peláez -- The Impact of New Technologies in Organisations / Áurea Anguera de Sojo -- Economic Impact of Smart Specialization and Research in Advanced Adaptive Systems in a Monetary Union / Dimitrios Kyriakou -- Perspectives on Technological Developments Applied to Robotics / Clara Pérez Molina, Rosario Gil Ortego, Francisco Mur Pérez -- Robotics in Alternative Energy / Raquel Dormido Canto, Natividad Duro Carralero -- The Future of Smart Domestic Environments: The Triad of Robotics, Medicine and Biotechnology / José Antonio Díaz, M. Rosario Hilde Sánchez Morales -- Dependency, Social Work, and Advanced Automation / Yolanda M. de la Fuente Robles, Eva Sotomayor Morales -- Lessons from the Digital Divide / Eduard Aibar -- Inequalities in the Information and Knowledge Society: From the Digital Divide to Digital Inequality / Cristóbal Torres-Albero, José Manuel Robles, Stefano De Marco -- From "Singularity" to Inequality: Perspectives on the Emerging Robotics Divide / Antonio López Peláez, Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 20, 2013) |
| Subject |
Robotics.
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Robotics
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
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Ingénierie.
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Robotics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
López Peláez, Antonio, editor author
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| ISBN |
9781447153580 |
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1447153588 |
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