The robot in the garden : telerobotics and telepistemology in the age of the Internet /

• Other Authors: Goldberg, Ken
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2000.
• Series: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Subjects: Robotics.; Knowledge, Theory of.; PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.; Robotica.; Afstandsbediening.; Internet.; Kennistheorie.; Inteligencia artificial (computacao); Robotique.; Connaissance, Th�eorie de la.; Electronic books.

"The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influential technologies, the telescope, telephone, and television, were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots,...