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Gods and Robots

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Gods and Robots

By Adrienne Mayor

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About the book

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machinesThe first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and centuries before technology made self-moving devices possible, Greek mythology was exploring ideas about creating artificial...Show more

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9780691183510

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Gods and Robots

Format

Hardcover

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