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BeagleBone By Example

You're reading from  BeagleBone By Example

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285059
Pages 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

BeagleBone By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with BeagleBone 2. Circuit Fundamentals and GPIO 3. Introduction to Physical Computing Systems 4. Real-time Physical Computing Systems Using BeagleBone 5. Connecting Physical Computing Systems to the Internet 6. Home Automation Using BeagleBone 7. Working with Images Using Computer Vision 8. Home Security Systems Using BeagleBone Black 9. Exploring Robotics 10. Building Your Own Robot Index

Introduction to robotics


Many people remember only the famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and relate the humanoid terminator robot from the Terminator movies when they hear the word "robot". Even though it is true that the word robot relates to similar types of robots, people forget that the exact meaning of robots is not just that. Actually, that is just one type of robot: the humanoid type robots or—as people call them these days—androids are robots that resemble humans. We are still at the beginning stages of android robot development—there is a long way to go in that field of research if we are to reach results similar to science fiction movie robots.

Sci-Fi humanoid robot versus the most advanced actual robot currently available

What is called a robot has many different definitions. The definitions depend on which technology is being used in the robotic system and what application the robotic system performs. Relating to the known definition of the physical computing system, we can define...

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