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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

by Adrienne Mayor

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—and even invented real automated machines The 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, Greek mythology wa

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

Nov 27, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780691183510