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  Ultimate Robotics Programming...

  Jonathan Cacace

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  Learn Robotics and ROS 2 with Practical Examples
  Book Description
  Robot Operating System (ROS) and Python are essential tools for developing advanced robotics applications, offering reliability and scalability for both research and industrial solutions. Ultimate Robotics Programming with ROS 2 and Python introduces readers to ROS 2 without requiring prior experience in robotics. It blends theoretical explanations with practical exercises, empowering readers to solve specific robotics problems while understanding the reasoning behind various approaches.
  The book covers a broad spectrum of robotics topics, including mobile robots, industrial manipulators, and aerial robots. These systems are simulated using the modern Gazebo simulator and programmed with ROS 2’s out-of-the-box tools and custom solutions using the ROS 2 API. The book also delves into computer vision, generative AI, and machine learning, providing hands-on examples of real-world applications.
  Table of Contents
  1. Introduction to Robot Operating System
  2. Hands-on ROS 2 Programming Using Python
  3. Supplementary Tools for ROS
  4. Robot Visualization and Simulation
  5. Writing Tests Using Pytest for ROS 2 Nodes
  6. Controlling an Inverted Pendulum with a PID Controller
  7. Laser-based Obstacle Avoidance with a Wheeled Mobile Robot
  8. ROS 2 Behaviour Trees Using Python
  9. Surveillance System Using Behaviour Trees
  10. Robot Navigation Using ROS 2 Navigation Stack (Nav2)
  11. Robot Arm Control Using MoveIt
  12. Programming Aerial Robots Using ROS
  13. Computer Vision Using ROS
  14. Object Detection Using ROS
  15. Using Large Language Models with ROS
  16. Deep Reinforcement Learning Using ROS 2       
  
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  Gaia Wakes - Earth's Emergent...

  Topher McDougal

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  Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet. Starting from a strong foundation in economics and drawing on a vast range of multidisciplinary scholarship, Topher McDougal explores the possibility of a fifth transition towards an upgraded Earth: the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ecological functions and peering far into the future and universe. 
  Gaia Wakes endows the emergence of a planetary brain with both a plausible economic mechanism and a historical context in which that mechanism has operated over the course of 3.8 billion years of life on Earth. It argues that the global environmental devastation we are beginning to experience and rapid recent advancements in artificial intelligence may jointly be part of a naturally recurring cycle of “upgrades” that has driven the increasing complexity of life on Earth. 
  Ambitious and provocative, the author combines economics with a breathtaking range of subjects including futurism, technology, philosophy, ecology and planetary and environmental sciences to offer new insights into questions that have long challenged us about the relationship between humankind and the world in which we live. Gaia Wakes stands out as a bold and original perspective on the future of our planet.

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  Impasse - Climate Change and the...

  Roy Scranton

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  A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025! 
   
  Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress." 
   
  The impasse we face is not only political and institutional, but cognitive, existential, and narrative. We're incapable of grasping the scale, speed, and impact of global warming. And we optimistically cling to a narrative that promises a better tomorrow if we just keep doing what we're doing. 
   
  It's past time to free ourselves from our dangerous and dogmatic faith. Such unwarranted optimism will accelerate our disintegration. If we want to have hope for the future, it must be grounded in a recognition of human limits—a view Scranton calls ethical pessimism. 
   
  Scranton describes the challenges we face in making sense of our predicament, from problems in communication to questions of justice, from the inherent biases in human perception to the difficulties of empirical knowledge. What emerges is a challenging but hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our future.

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  The Digital Revolution -...

  Nova Ashford

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  The origins of the digital revolution can be traced back to several key developments in technology, many of which were shaped by visionary thinkers and groundbreaking innovations. At the heart of this transformation was the invention of the computer, a device that would later evolve into the complex machines that now permeate every aspect of modern life. Early computing, which began in the 1930s and 1940s, was initially limited to large, cumbersome machines used by governments and research institutions. These machines, like the ENIAC and the UNIVAC, were monumental in size and expensive to maintain, but they laid the groundwork for the digital age that would follow. 
  The true revolution, however, began with the development of the microprocessor in the 1970s. This small, powerful component allowed computers to shrink in size, becoming affordable for individuals and small businesses. Companies like Intel and AMD played pivotal roles in creating chips that would power everything from personal computers to smartphones. The release of the first microprocessor-powered personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as the Apple II and the IBM PC, marked the beginning of a new era in computing. 
  Parallel to the rise of personal computing was the development of the internet, which would fundamentally change how people connect with one another and access information. The internet's roots can be traced to the 1960s, when the U.S. Department of Defense developed ARPANET, a network designed to share information across computers in a decentralized manner. As the internet expanded during the 1990s, it transformed from a tool for academic and government use into a platform for businesses and individuals alike. The introduction of the World Wide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, made the internet more accessible and user-friendly, leading to the explosion of online content and services that would define the digital age.

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  Carbon Technocracy - Energy...

  Victor Seow

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  A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. 
   
  The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun’s purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. 
   
  In Carbon Technocracy, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state. Taking coal as an essential feedstock of national wealth and power, Chinese and Japanese bureaucrats, engineers, and industrialists deployed new technologies like open-pit mining and hydraulic stowage in pursuit of intensive energy extraction. But as much as these mine operators idealized the might of fossil fuel–driven machines, their extractive efforts nevertheless relied heavily on the human labor that those devices were expected to displace. Under the carbon energy regime, countless workers here and elsewhere would be subjected to invasive techniques of labor control, ever-escalating output targets, and the dangers of an increasingly exploited earth. 
   
  Although Fushun is no longer the coal capital it once was, the pattern of aggressive fossil-fueled development that led to its ascent endures. As we confront a planetary crisis precipitated by our extravagant consumption of carbon, it holds urgent lessons. This is a groundbreaking exploration of how the mutual production of energy and power came to define industrial modernity and the wider world that carbon made.

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  Why Trust Is Dying and What We...

  Arden Carrington

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  Why Trust Is Dying and What We Can Do About It 
  ⭐⭐ A Simplified Guide with Insights and Explanations ⭐⭐ 
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  This guide is your ultimate companion for enhancing your knowledge, applying practical techniques, and engaging in meaningful exercises. With it, you're prepared to make a significant impact. 
  Updated to reflect the latest insights on trust in 2024. 
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