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Describes how to prepare for a career in robotics, including the different jobs in the field, the education required for a position in the field, and how robotics research will be used in future applications.

Provides an overview of robotics competitions; offers information on forming a team, robot design and construction, and building a robot; and includes an interview with roboticist Jacob Cohen.

Readers will learn about the invention of the earliest robot-like mechanical devices, the advent of electronics, the first instances of robot automation, and the development of artificial intelligence.

Step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain how to draw different types of robots, including androids, cyborgs, fighting bots, and other fantastic machines.

When the world's ships start sinking, secret agent Adam Sharp investigates and discovers metal robot sharks are behind the attacks.

Rhyming verse describes the many things that robots can do, while sidebars present more detailed information on actual robots already in operation, and those planned for the future.

Robert finds a robot from the planet Gobi and uses it to clean up his messy room.

Describes examples of robots in movies and fiction, from their first appearances in the 1920s to the twenty-first century, and explores CGI robot creation, as well as cartoon and toy robots.

Tom Swift must stop terrorists from ruining the Robot Olympics. Tom's been training his entry, SwiftBot, for the upcoming Robot Olympics -- a major event being sponsored by the White House's Office of Science and Technology.

Describes robots, their treatment in science fiction, and their increasing uses in such areas as industrial work, transportation, war, and space exploration.

When the Robobots move onto Littlewood Lane they create controversy with their strange ways, but eventually they convince the neighbors that they are a family worth knowing.

When Pappy bumps his head before bedtime, Olie cheers him up by inventing a super silly ray, and then they both become happy, sleepy robots.

Rodney, a young robot, goes to Robot City to show television host Bigweld an invention he made -- the Wonderbot.

While on a field trip to a museum, young twin superheroes Timmy and Tabby battle robotic dinosaurs controlled by a mad scientist who plans to take over the world.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about robots of the past, present, and future, covering both real and fictional robots.