"When the job is too dangerous for soldiers, the military often uses robots. Learn more about these amazing machines, including how they are controlled, what they look like, and the types of missions they face."--www.Amazon.com.

"It's time to power down for the night, but Little Robot isn't ready! He quickly opens his stalling program. Luckily, Mom Unit knows exactly how to get him into his sleep module"--

When Space Cat and Earl the robot encounter trouble with their space ship, they crash-land on an alien planet to search for more fuel.

Introduces readers to robots and robotics, from how they were developed and the materials used to create them to the jobs they are tasked with and where the field of robotics is heading.

Rhyming verse describes the many things that robots can do, while sidebars present more detailed information on actual robots today and as planned for the future.

When George Gearing's personal robot Jackbot gets hit by a car, George rebuilds him into something amazing, only to have him disappear just as darkness threatens the town, leaving George and his new friend Anne Droid to find out what happened.

When all the other monsters win their events in the Monster Olympics, San is upset when she loses her race to the Space Spider.

"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--

"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...

After delivering presents Santa needs a nap, but Otto and his friends like their gifts so much that Santa cannot find a quiet place to sleep.