The book lays out simple application projects with detailed examples and explanations. These projects range from simple computer input and output to the electrical and electronics circuits of a self contained mobile robot.
Although it is a practical “how to build it” book, it also demonstrates the concepts of computer control possibilities which enables the reader to “learn by doing”.
The centerpiece of the book is H.E.N.R.Y. the Golden Droid Award winner at the First International Personal Robot Congress and Exposition 1984, The book gives complete details so you can build this internally computer controlled robot for a few hundred dollars.
The book contains other sophisticated but inexpensive projects and a supplement with High School robotics course curriculum material.