Gearheads-The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports
Casual fans of Comedy Central's Battlebots will be shocked at the Machiavellian intrigue behind the scenes of the radio-controlled robotic warfare. Newsweek journalist Brad Stone's original and surprisingly engaging account of the rise of "robotic sport" depicts a world hardly anyone not passionate about these gladiatorial gear fests would have ever suspected.

Kickin' 'Bot : An Illustrated Guide to Building Combat Robots
Written by award-winning robot builder and BattleBots champion and star of the hit Mythbusters TV show, Grant Imahara. The first visual guide to building the immensely popular battle robots, featuring clear, easy-to-understand instructions, detailed illustrations, and plenty of diagrams for every step

Building Bots: Designing and Building Warrior Robots
This is the definitive guide to designing and building warrior robots like those seen on BattleBots, Robotica, and Robot Wars. It walks robot enthusiasts of all ages step-by-step through the design and building process, enabling them to create any number of customized warrior robots.

Build Your Own Combat Robot
Experience the excitement of building your own champion battling bot! Build a powerful and invincible robot--for full-blown competition or just for fun--using this authoritative robot resource. This team of experts gives you an inside look at the innovative new world of robotic combat, explaining the origins of the sport as well as all the elements that go into constructing a fighting robot.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
Finally, a robots book for people who don't know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Robots is well-written, inviting, and action-packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots and robot-related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and "schools" of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots.

Robot Building for Beginners
Learning robotics by yourself isn't easy. It helps when the encouragement comes from someone who's been there. Not only does "Robot Building for Beginners" assist you in understanding component parts of robot development, but also it prepares you with techniques to learn new discoveries on your own. Author David Cook begins with the anatomy of a homemade robot and gives you the best advice on how to proceed successfully.

Applied Robotics
Designed to give beginners a thorough and complete introduction into the field of robotics with simple projects and easy-to-read explanations. Detailed and extensive schematics, programs, and descriptions guide you through the challenges of building a working robot. Softcover. CD-ROM included. By Edwin Wise.

Fighting Robots
This is an A to Z guide to the fascinating world of mechanical warriors. Featuring the bots and the builders from the top robot fighting competitions around the world. By Michael Benson.

Combat Robot Weapons
Build combat robots that smash, slash, and pummel their way to victory with McGraw-Hill's Combat Robot Weapons. Including detailed information on weapon construction, fight strategy, and tips from combat robot guru Chris Hannold, this practical guide delivers everything you need to know to add a wide variety of weapons to your robots. Perfect for robotics hobbyists and educators -- as well as newcomers who want to build combat robots but don't know where to start-- Combat Robot Weapons delves deeply into weaponry.

Combat Robots Complete: Everything You Need to Build, Compete, and Win
Here's everything you need to jump into the fascinating and fun world of fighting robots- even if you don't have advanced electronic or engineering skills. The author, a five-year fighting bot and twenty-year bot veteran who has promoted robot combat events, offers priceless insider info covering everything from step-by-step guidance on constructing your first combat robot to the lowdown on the federations that sponsor or guide competitions.

Robot Builder's Sourcebook
Contains resources for both common and hard-to-find parts and supplies. Features dozens of "sidebars" to clarify essential robotics technologies. Provides original articles on various robot-building topics. By Gordon McComb.

Build A Remote-Controlled Robot
This groundbreaking, heavily illustrated book explains how to create everythinbg from basic, simple robots to ones that walk, see, feel, talk, listen and fight! Written by "professors of robotics" such as Gordon McComb and John Iovine, this book is great for beginners as well as experienced robot builders. By David R. Shircliff.

Building Robot Drive Trains
This essential title in McGraw-Hill's ROBOT DNA SERIES is just what robotics hobbyists need to build an effective drive train using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts. Leaving heavy-duty tech speak behind, the authors focus on the actual concepts and applications necessary to build - and understand -- these critical force-conveying systems.
If you're hooked on amateur robotics and want a clear, straight-forward guide to the nuts-and-bolts of drive trains, this is the way to go. By Dennis Clark & Michael Owings.

PIC Robotics: A Beginner's Guide to Robotics Projects Using the PIC Micro
Here's everything the robotics hobbyist needs to harness the power of the PICMicro MCU! In this heavily-illustrated resource, author John Iovine provides plans and complete parts lists for 11 easy-to-build robots each with a PICMicro "brain. The expertly written coverage of the PIC Basic Computer makes programming a snap -- and lots of fun.
Complete do-it-yourself robotics projects!
SMART BOTS!

Robot Builder's Bonanza
A major revision of the bestselling "bible" of amateur robotics building--packed with the latest in servo motor technology, microcontrolled robots, remote control, Lego Mindstorms Kits, and other commercial kits. Gives electronics hobbyists fully illustrated plans for 11 complete Robots, as well as all-new coverage of Robotix-based Robots, Lego Technic-based Robots, Functionoids with Lego Mindstorms, and Location and Motorized Systems with Servo Motors. Features a pictures and parts list that accompany all projects, and material on using the BASIC Stamp and other microcontrollers. By Gordon McComb.

JunkBots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With BEAM Technology
From the publishers of BattleBots: The Official Guide comes this do-it-yourself guide to BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) robots. They're cheap, simple, and can be built by beginners in just a few hours, with help from this expert guide complete with full-color photos. Get ready for some dumpster-diving!
Create a cool robot from scratch--in just a few hours!

Robots, Androids and Animatrons, Second Edition : 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build
Bring a robot to life without programming or assembly language skills! There's never been a better time to explore the world of the nearly human. With the complete directions supplied by popular electronics author John Iovine, you can:
* Build your first walking, talking, sensing, thinking robot
* Create 12 working robotic projects, using the fully illustrated instructions provided
* Get the best available introduction to robotics, motion control, sensors, and neural intelligence
* Put together basic modules to build sophisticated `bots of your own design
* Construct a robotic arm that responds to your spoken commands
* Build a realistic, functional robotic hand
* Apply sensors to detect bumps, walls, inclines, and roads
* Give your robot expertise and neural intelligence

Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
2,501 mechanisms and mechanical devices at your fingertips! A one-of-a-kind pictorial directory, Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Third Edition, gives you drawings and descriptions of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices. A carefully compiled index lets you quickly find a specific component which may very well be the exact problem-solving answer you've been seeking. You can count on this guide to help you: * Design basic mechanisms from scratch with a chapter of tutorial text and formulas * Save time researching patents * Get a refresher on the design and function of bearings, belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears, genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and switches

Insectronics : Build Your Own Walking Robot
This complete project book delivers all the step-by-step plans you need to construct your own six-legged insect-like robot that walks and actually responds to its environment. Using inexpensive off-the-shelf parts hobbyists can "build a better bug" and at the same time have loads of fun honing their knowledge of mechanical construction, programming, microcontroller use, and artificial intelligence. Written by an award-winning robotics expert