Future tech : from personal robots to motorized monocycles
Title:
Future tech : from personal robots to motorized monocycles
Author:
Piddock, Charles.
Lee, J. D. (James D.)
ISBN:
9781426304682
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2009.
Physical Description:
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Series:
National Geographic investigates
National Geographic investigates.
Series Title:
National Geographic investigates
National Geographic investigates.
Contents:
Robots with a human face -- Cyborg dreams -- Nature tech -- Thinking small -- Motoring around -- Living in the future.
Abstract:
Explains and illustrates the most current research and technologies that promise to change our lives dramatically in the future, from machines with the ability of independent thought, to cars that drive themselves, to robots that borrow their nature from nature itself.
Subject:
| Technological innovations -- Juvenile literature. |
| Technological forecasting -- Juvenile literature. |
| Biomimetics -- Juvenile literature. |
| Nanotechnology -- Juvenile literature. |
| Robotics -- Juvenile literature. |
Summary:
Explains and illustrates the most current research and technologies that promise to change our lives dramatically in the future, from machines with the ability of independent thought, to cars that drive themselves, to robots that borrow their nature from nature itself.