Celebrating STEAM, robotics, innovation, and supercool technology, explore kid inventors, robots with feelings, robotic toys and games, cyborgs, and more in this fact-packed book. Find out how and why robots are made, how they help humans now, and how they will help us in the future. Discover how computers develop and build robots, and how engineers design robots with very specific capabilities, be it walking, jumping, exploring Mars, or defusing...

"US military robots come in many shapes and sizes, but they all have one thing in common. They help keep soldiers safe. Learn more about the dangerous missions and amazing abilities of military robots"--

"Learn all about robots, from how they are designed and built to which exciting new kinds of robots you might see in the future."--

The B1 battle droid RO-GR (also known as Roger) narrates this illustrated presentation of a variety of the droids in the Star Wars universe, including movable flaps, pop-ups and inserts.

"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a . . . robot hummingbird? Meet robots inspired by animals that are racing through water like sharks, climbing walls like geckos, flying through the sky like honeybees, and more." --

Demonstrates step-by-step how to draw such 'bots as the Sparky Springbot, Bakerbot, Bellybot, and those essential spare parts!

Simple text and close-up photographs present the amazing advancements of today's robots. Readers will learn about the incredible developments of robotic exploration from undersea work to caves and outer space. This book contains important details about how these robots are designed to assist, protect, and benefit humans. Includes surprising information about companies and engineers creating today's most up-to-date robots. Aligned to Common Core Standards...

What do humans and robots have in common? Find out in this intriguing illustrated nonfiction book that encourages kids to discover their inner robot. Bots and Bods is an illustrated guide for kids looking to explore anatomy and technology and how they're related. How do we both move or sense the world? How does robot intelligence compare to our own? Middle-grade readers will find these answers and more among the four sections: Body structures Muscle...

"Robots are everywhere! In Bots! Robotics Engineering with Hands-On Makerspace Activities, middle schoolers learn about these devices that vacuum our houses, work in our factories, help us learn at school, sample rocks from other planets, and even bring back images from the bottom of the ocean. In Bots! you can find hands-on STEM activities, coding challenges that use free online software, essential questions, and links to online primary resources!"--...