For the generation weaned on Star Wars, Black Runner, Isaac Asimov, and other facets of pop culture incorporating flights of robotic fantasy, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Ph.D., a pro- fessor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, has a message for you: your childhood fantasies are marching ever closer to reality. In this slim volume, the author presents a convincing case that robotics and robotic technologies are already serving as the "living glue" between the physical and the digital world and that they are poised to do much, much more in the next few decades. Thus, we may see robots that can effortlessly scale Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, vehicles that can drive themselves, hyperpre-scient advertising and marketing "bots," and much more.
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