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He is author of robot futures and introduction to autonomous mobile robots. He is coauthor of the forthcoming book ai and humanity and author of robot futures, from which this article is adapted. He opens each chapter with a short story set in the near future where personal robotics is common. Often it is in the asian cultural context that you see the compassionate sidethink of atom boyastro boy. He is coauthor of the second edition mit press textbook, introduction to autonomous mobile robots. Most recently he published parenting for technology futures, as an amazon paperback.
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