172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1966, in Human Robots in Myth and Science, the author traces the idea of the robot from antiquity until the present day (1960s) and sketches the lines of its likely development in the future. Modern science, like science fiction, is deeply concerned with the idea of a robot or self-regulating artifact which operates without human aid. Ultra rapid computers, pilotless planes,... Read more
Preface 1. Robots in Antiquity 2. Robots in the Middle Ages 3. A Man-Made Man 4. Robots in Fiction- with an Appendix on Pygmalionism and Allied Matters 5. Theory of Robots in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 6. The Fabrication of Actual Automata 7. Motives of Robot Makers 8. Robots in the Recent Past and the Immediate Future 9. Is Man a Robot?
Biography
John Cohen
