How To Build a Robot

by Clive Gifford, Tim Benton (Illustrator)

Describes how to build a robot and includes information on robots from both fact and fiction.

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor

96 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2001

About the author

Clive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author with over 170 books published and more than 800 features and stories written for adults and children.

Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company.

He says: "What drives me more than anything else is the desire to communicate, entertain and inform through the written word."

Reviews

[Powers Family]

For school Ben is suppose to read different genre of books and "how to" is one of them. I found this at the library. After reading it he told me all about nanobots and that the arm robots (i.e. like the one to repair the hubble telescope) are the most common. Not sure you could really build a robot after reading this but he enjoyed reading it.