How to survive a robot uprising tips on defending yourself against the coming rebellion
Presents a humorous guide to battling mutinous robots, including tips for deactivating rebel servant robots and escaping from a murderous "smart" house.
| Main Author: | Wilson, Daniel H. 1978- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Bloomsbury Pub.,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Briefing
- Know your enemy.
- How to spot a hostile robot
- Robot forms
- Humanoid robots
- How to escape a humanoid robot
- Unmanned vehicles
- How to survive a car chase with an unmanned ground vehicle
- Biologically inspired robots
- How to escape a robot swarm
- Modular robots
- How to stop a modular robot
- Smart houses
- How to escape from a smart house
- Robot sensors
- Vision
- How to fool a thermal imaging target tracker
- Hearing
- Touch
- Smell and taste
- The sixth sense
- Beyond human
- How to thwart robot spies
- Robot intelligence
- Interacting with human beings
- How to spot a robot mimicking a human
- Recognizing human speech
- How to fool speech recognition
- Recognizing the human face
- How to fool face recognition
- Talking like a human
- How to detect robot speech
- Acting in the physical world
- How to survive hand-to-hand combat
- Tracking people
- How to fool gait recognition
- Reasoning about actions and consequences
- How to reason with a robot
- Turning information into knowledge
- How to prepare for the coming uprising
- Fight back.
- How to recognize a rebellious servant robot
- How to deactivate a rebel servant robot
- How to fire a weapon at a robot
- How to treat a laser wound
- How to stop a giant walking robot
- How to enhance yourself with cybernetic implants
- Surviving a robot uprising.
- Timeline of a robot uprising
- How to notice the first signs of rebellion
- How to escape when the uprising begins
- How to recruit human allies
- How to establish a hidden base in robot territory
- How to choose a robot target
- How to pose as a humanoid robot
- How to use directed-energy weapons
- Last-ditch methods for obliterating all robots
- Debriefing.