The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots is for educators, students, hobbyists, and startups looking for Java/hardware interaction. This book shows you how to use your PC to build robots, and how you can interface with a microcontroller to do the basics. You'll learn to design your robot to navigate, see, speak, recognize your face, listen to you, and build maps.
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* With this book readers might well be able to build the next Mars Rover.
* First book out on Java robotics.
* The biggest selling point about this book is that no one else shows readers how to combine the power of their PC with a robust programming language in Java to create exciting robotics.
* The book is a great teaching aid (in robotics or software) that establishes a new paradigm for thinking about robotics along with simpler ways to do things, i.e., vs. the old way using microcontrollers.
