Dreams. Strength ; Reach ; Time ; Lift ; Magic ; Vision ; Precision
Reality. How to build a robot ; The brain in motion ; The brain in touch ; How robots learn ; An informative technical interlude ; The technologist's to-do list
Responsibility. Possible futures ; What could go wrong? ; The work of the future ; Computational education ; Grand challenges
Epilogue : A dream of robots

Smart machines impact our lives in countless ways - improving the precision of surgeons, cleaning our homes, extending our reach to distant worlds - and we are on the cusp of even more exciting opportunities. In this book, a roboticist and a science writer team up to provide an overview of the interconnected fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and reframe the way we think about intelligent machines. At once optimistic and realistic, the authors envision a world in which these technologies augment and enhance our skills and talents, both as individuals and as a species - a world in which the proliferation of robots allows us all to be more human. -- Adapted from back cover description