Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. 1. Robots as theories of behaviour 1
5. 2. Robots that have motivations and emotions 33
6. 3. How robots acquire their behaviour 81
7. 4. Robots that have language 121
8. 5. Robots with a mental life 159
9. 6. Social robots 187
10. 7. Robotic families 221
11. 8. Robots that learn from other robots and develop cultures and technologies 259
12. 9. Robot that own things 301
13. 10. Political robotics 339
14. 11. Robotic economies 361
15. 12. Individually different robots and robots with pathologies 407
16. 13. Robots that have art, religion, philosophy, science, and history 427
17. 14. Human robots are future robots 451
18. 15. How human robots can be useful to human beings 461
19. References and additional readings 479
20. Index 489