The complete handbook of robotics

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1. carapaceNov 2022
   The old TAB books on robotics are pretty good IMO. Not the electronics section, that's mostly out of date, but all the physical stuff like motors and kinetics is still pretty topical.

   E.g. "The Complete Handbook of Robotics" by Edward L. Safford, Jr. https://archive.org/details/completehandbook0000saff

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   OOOooooo! See also "Cybernetics A to Z" by V. Pekelis that just made it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639261 It looks fantastic!

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2. reneberlinJun 2025
   I tried for you with google gemini:

   I'm continuing to focus on visually confirming the specific illustration of the water-based machine with a video camera eye on a tripod of pontoons. My previous research has strongly pointed to

   Edward L. Safford Jr.'s robotics books, 'The Complete Handbook of Robotics' (1978) and 'Handbook of Advanced Robotics' (1982), both published by TAB Books, as the most likely candidates for the remembered book. The descriptions of these books align well with the user's memory of complex, pen-and-ink robot illustrations.

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