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Special Online Collection: Robotics

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Robotics issue, 16 November 2007In its 16 November 2007 issue, Science explores the contributions of robots and robotics to both scientific and everyday life. News articles examine the challenges of creating self-replicating robots and the use of robots to lure more students to computer science. Review and Perspective articles look at biologically inspired robots and artificial muscle technologies, robots as tools for ocean and space exploration, and brain-based devices that learn to carry out tasks from environmental cues. An additional editorial, news features, and a research paper explore other aspects of the robotics scene. And a special all-robotics podcast provides interviews on studying insect behavior using robot cockroaches, robot ethics, self-navigating robotic cars, and robots in extreme environments.

In Science

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE

A Robotic Future >
Marc S. Lavine, David Voss, Robert Coontz

NEWS

Making Machines That Make Others of Their Kind >
Adrian Cho
Robots' Allure: Can It Remedy What Ails Computer Science? >
Benjamin Lester

REVIEWS

Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics >
Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella, Fumiya Iida
Mobile Robots: Motor Challenges and Materials Solutions >
John D. Madden
Robotics in Remote and Hostile Environments >
James G. Bellingham, Kanna Rajan
Learning in and from Brain-Based Devices >
Gerald M. Edelman

Also in this issue:

Editorial: Robot Ethics
Robert J. Sawyer

News: Robot Cockroach Tests Insect Decision-Making Behavior
Elizabeth Pennisi

News: Oceanography's Third Wave
Robert F. Service

News: Robotic Cars Tackle Crosstown Traffic--and Not One Another
Adrian Cho

Report: Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices
J. Halloy et al.

On the Science Podcast

In the 16 November 2007 Science Podcast, it's all about robots: Hear about robot cockroaches fooling their live cousins, the dilemmas of "robot ethics," the use of robots in extreme environments, from Mars to the deep ocean, and DARPA's robot-car challenge.


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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)