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Index
Apollo 11, 271
bar coding, 13, 24, 24, 30, 122, 211, 220
apparent range, 114–115
battery, 86
armature coil, 197–198
Armstrong, Neil, 272
base 2, 206
base 10, 205
array, 189
articulated geometry, 10–11, 11,99
base rotation, 11, 59, 300
artificial intelligence, 11–12, 12, 51, 120,
bat, 334
beacon, 24–25, 77, 78, 130
139, 166–167, 190, 195, 202–203,
behavior, 25
241, 260, 308, 323, 338 bandwidth, 23–24, 23
artificial stimulus, 12–13 Bell, Alexander Graham, 293
articulated geometry, 164 biased search, 25–26, 26, 122
ASCII, 297 bin picking problem, 29, 128, 211
Asimov, Isaac, 13 binary number system, 206
Asimov’s three laws, 13, 117, 223 binary search, 26–27, 27
assembly robot, 13–14 binaural machine hearing, 27–28, 28
atomic data, 6 binocular machine vision, 9, 28–29, 29,
attraction gripper, 14 57, 159, 220
attractive radial potential field, 231–232 biochip, 6, 30–31
automated guided vehicle, 12, 14–15, biological robot, 31, 188
15, 93, 130 biomechanism, 31
automated integrated manufacturing biomechatronics, 31–32
system, 13, 268 biped robot, 9, 32, 81
automation, 15 bird, 334
automaton, 15–16 bit map, 32, 248
autonomous robot, 76, 135, 136, 137, bit-mapped graphics, 32–33
268, 286, 307, 310 bits per second, 23, 195
autonomous underwater vehicle, 304 blackboard, 33
axiom, 148 blackboard system, 33–34, 33
axis interchange, 16–17, 17 bladder gripper, 34
axis inversion, 17–19, 18 bladder hand, 34
azimuth, 19–20, 53, 300 bleeder resistor, 237
azimuth-range navigation, 19–20, 19 body capacitance, 40
azimuth resolution, 75 bogey, 292
Bongard problem, 34–35, 35, 221
Babbage, Charles, 8, 10 Boolean algebra, 35–36, 178
back lighting, 21, 117, 284 Boolean theorems, 36
back pressure, 21 bottom-up programming, 342
back pressure sensor, 21–22, 22, 25, 47, branch point, 36
81 branching, 36–38, 37
back voltage, 21 Brooks, Rodney, 153
backward chaining, 22 buffer, 63
ballistic control, 22–23, 47 bumper, 237
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