Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Children's Literature - Heidi Hauser Green

Do you want to know how robots work? Have you wondered if robots can think like humans? Are you curious about how artificial intelligence works? These and ten other questions about robots and artificial intelligence are answered in the pages of this book. Author Nicholas Brasch takes on play and fighting, industrial uses, applications in health care, future use of these technologies, and more. He focuses two pages of text on each element. Some of the passages seem repetitive; this may be less obvious to readers navigating through the book for answers to specific questions than those reading it straight through. Like the other books in "The Technology Behind" series, this one features a colorful format and abundance of information. Illustrations are full-color photographs or drawings, and these appear on every page. Vocabulary words are printed in bold throughout the text, with definitions provided in "Word Watch" blocks on each page. However, interestingly, neither "robot" nor "artificial intelligence" is defined in any of these sections. "Web Watch" blocks provide between one and three web addresses of resources with additional information for each question, but several questions in this text lack links. It's a shame this resource provides no list of books for additional information. All in all, this book is suited for answering specific, focused questions. Reviewer: Heidi Hauser Green