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1) Robot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the advanced intelligence of robots with feelings. Young readers will be amazed to learn all that robots can do: perform delicate surgical operations, clean city sewers, work as museum tour guides, or even battle each other in combat.
2) Spare Parts
Description
Four Hispanic high school students organize a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and big dreams, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
"...Matsueda's screenplay is alert to details that ground the film in the day-to-day lives of young people who are American in every way but technically."--Hollywood Reporter
"The characters in "Spare Parts" all go through changes that are true...
3) Big hero 6
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada learns to harness his genius, thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon, and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion - a robot named Baymax - and transforms the group into a band of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Building Better Robots offers a cutting-edge, comprehensive look at one of science's biggest challenges. Includes a look at the history of the topic, recent breakthroughs, key facts to consider, and questions that remain unanswered."--
7) Ungifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
On an island nation in the Indian Ocean, the explorers venture through a vast underwater world and take part in a friendly robotics competition. But the tides of good fortune change quickly. Suddenly, Team Cousteau jumps into action to rescue a faculty member from the brink of death. Meanwhile, the team follows the Cruz's mother's clues to a magnificent tomb and center of spirituality precariously perched on the side of a cliff. There, Cruz is confronted...
10) Robotics
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Takes a look at the current state and future of the field of robotics, emphasizing that robots are already playing an important role in making our lives easier.
12) Robots
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Profiles current robotics technologies while outlining near-future innovations, explaining the components that make up a robot, six primary robot types, and the ways in which robots are helping our world.
14) Space robots
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"With simple text and bold infographics, teaches beginning readers about space robots and their role in our world"--
15) Robot universe
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Explore the capabilities of robots and the computers that control them, from space rovers to drones, from robotic toys to robots that perform surgery, and meet Pepper, the first robot able to show and understand human emotion. What is a robot? Will robots take over the future? Robot Universe gives young readers a look at the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence. Perfect for 9-11 year olds reading independently, reading becomes a fact-discovering...
16) Really?: robots
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Profiles current robotic technologies while outlining near-future innovations from the scientists who are devloping them, discussing theories, experiments, and the processes involved.
18) Animal robots
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs describe eight different robots that mimic animals and the work these robots do."--
19) Paulie go!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A young AI prodigy gets rejected from the world-renowned robotics lab and does what any rational teenager would do steal a van and drive across the country to Northern Minnesota to track down the Professor who rejected him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"This fun and educational introduction to the exciting field of robotics the science of designing, building, and operating robots gives kids the basic tools for creating their own robots using ordinary craft materials and parts salvaged from recycled toys and other household devices. Early chapters teach budding roboticists how to create working models of robot hands and write pencil and paper computer programs, while later chapters show them how...
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