02975cam a22004815i 4500 OSt 20261007141420.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 261007s2016 gw |||| o |||| 0|eng 9783319758220 10.1007/978-3-319-75823-7 doi DLC eng pn rda DLC TJFD thema TJFM bicssc TJFM thema 629.8 SIC 1 629.8 Robotics Goes MOOC/ edited by Bruno Siciliano Design Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2025. 1 online resource (XXIV, 360 pages illustrations in color.) 29.cm text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Springer Handbooks, 2522-8692 Technique is the essence of the human being. With the technique, human beings can obtain for themselves what they once asked of the Gods. A push to overcome one’s own limits that is projected into the ambition to create artifacts in one’s own image and likeness: this is how the automaton was born, a machine that moved by itself. Through the course of centuries, there were mechanical inventions of various types: self-propelled fountains, clocks which moved by the force of water, heat, or a particular mechanism, emulating human beings up to the recent zoomorphic or anthropomorphic creatures. They marked a long history from the Christian and Arab Middle Ages to the Italian Renaissance, with the ingenious designs of Leonardo da Vinci, up to the flourishing in Europe and Asia of creations such as the Jaquet Droz family of androids and the karakuri ningyo mechanical dolls of the eighteenth century. The playful dimension of the first automatons was rooted in the frontier technical knowledge of the time. In the industrial period, with the prevalence of the concept of machine utility over any other function, the wonders of these automata are to be considered as the parents of modern robots. Design, Logic Design Control engineering. Engineering design. Manufactures. Mechatronics. Robotics. Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T19000 Artificial Intelligence. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I21000 Computational Intelligence. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T11014 Engineering Design. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17020 Siciliano, Bruno. editor. E-book 0 ibc origres u ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2658 2658 0 0 ddc 0 0 TBK CamTech CamTech PRA 2026-10-07 Purchase 10.00 0 629.8 SIC 0000003203 2026-10-07 14:17:20 C.1 10.00 2026-10-07 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 TBK CamTech CamTech PRA 2026-10-07 Purchase 10.00 0 629.8 SIC 0000003201 2026-10-07 14:18:27 C.2 10.00 2026-10-07 BK