Table of contents

The following topics are dealt with: industrial robots; serial manipulators; parallel manipulators; mobile and legged robots; humanoids; bio-inspired robots; flying robots; service robotics; field robotics; underwater robots; probabilistic robotics; micro- and nano-robots; reconfigurable robots; workspace analysis; kinematics and dynamics; design and optimization; sensors; actuators; motion planning; trajectory generation; cooperation and coordination; object manipulation; motion and force control; cognitive robotics; machine vision; speech recognition; intelligent robots and mechatronics systems; learning robots; calibration; identification; telerobotics; haptics; telesurgery; visual servoing; rehabilitation; automation; field instruments; measurement systems; MEMS; opto-mechatronics; embedded systems; and advanced intelligent robotics.