The robotics divide : a new frontier in the 21st century? / Antonio Lopez Pelaez
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TextPublication details: London : Springer, [2013]Description: 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 144715357X (cloth)
- 9781447153573
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Includes bibliographical references
From the digital divide to the robotics divide? Reflections on technology, power, and social change -- The impact of new technologies in organisations -- Economic impact of smart specialization and research in advanced adaptive systems in a monetary union -- Perspectives on technological developments applied to robotics -- Robotics in alternative energy -- The future of smart domestic environments: the triad of robotics, medicine and biotechnology -- Dependency, social work, and advanced automation -- Lessons from the digital divide -- Inequalities in the information and knowledge society : from the digital divide to digital inequality -- From "singularity" to inequality : perspectives on the emerging robotics divide
This book examines the newly emerging technological divide of robotics, and how human society has and will face the use of robots in space, the military, leisure and domestic life as well as social services fields, as for the disabled. From Book Description, p. 219