Intelligent technologies & robotics

It is an old mankind dream: to drastically enhance our human physical and intellectual capabilities to ease our everyday life and beyond. The current extent and development pace of Intelligent Technologies is set to drive substantial technological and societal change over the coming decades and will help to make this dream come true. 

The Intelligent Technologies & Robotics subject area provides us with highly interdisciplinary research with the potential to change the fundamental principles of our society. It covers applications such as Intelligent Transportation, Humanoids, Self-Driving Cars, IoT, Ambient Intelligence, Smart Cities, Human-computer Interaction, Computational Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Medical Robotics, or Data Science. Furthermore, it brings together up-to-date resources from trusted authors working around the world in all aspects of Intelligent Systems.

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Editor's highlights

Book title 

Author

Robotics goes MOOC

Bruno Siciliano

Handbook on Soft Robotics

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Haircutting Robots

Steven Li

Data Fusion 3rd edition

Harvey B. Mitchell

New & Emerging Research Areas

  • Smart Robots
  • Data Engineering
  • Human-Machine Collaboration
  • Polyfunctional Robots
  • Ambient Intelligence

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About the Editor

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Thomas Ditzinger is Editorial Director of the Springer Interdisciplinary Applied Sciences books department. He has studied and graduated with a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Stuttgart in 1994. After several research sojourns at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida, at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Stuttgart and at the University of Media in Stuttgart he joined Springer in 2001 as associate editor - and stayed.