Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species Hardcover - 2000
by Peter Menzel; Faith D'Aluisio
A delightful, at times haunting, album of robots and their makers offers interviews with the makers and photographers of both. In this field guide to our mechanical future, the authors question if humans and robots might someday meld into a single species--Robo Sapiens. Full color.
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Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist -- automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will be something else: smart machines that act ever more like living creatures.
What will happen then? With our prosthetic limbs, titanium hips, and artificial eyes, we are already beginning to resemble our machines. And when we implant chips in our bodies to connect ourselves directly to computers, the likeness will become only more pronounced. Science fiction will have become science fact.
Meanwhile -- and equally important -- our machines are beginning to resemble us. Robotic spiders, crabs, geckos, and dogs are already spilling from the laboratories. The next steps are to re-create Homo sapiens itself and then go beyond. Robots can already walk, talk, and dance; they can react to human facial expressions and obey verbal commands. When scientists go on to create fully autonomous robots with greater intelligence than human beings, will they be our partners or our rivals? Will it be simply a robotic revolution or a true extension of evolution? Could machines and humankind meld into a single species -- Robo sapiens?In Robo sapiens, award-winning journalists Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present the next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than a hundred robots are extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal field notes with behind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about the machines. Robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future.
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Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist -- automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will be something else: smart machines that act ever more like living creatures.
What will happen then? With our prosthetic limbs, titanium hips, and artificial eyes, we are already beginning to resemble our machines. And when we implant chips in our bodies to connect ourselves directly to computers, the likeness will become only more pronounced. Science fiction will have become science fact.
Meanwhile -- and equally important -- our machines are beginning to resemble us. Robotic spiders, crabs, geckos, and dogs are already spilling from the laboratories. The next steps are to re-create Homo sapiens itself and then go beyond. Robots can already walk, talk, and dance; they can react to human facial expressions and obey verbal commands. When scientists go on to create fully autonomous robots with greater intelligence than human beings, will they be our partners or our rivals? Will it be simply a robotic revolution or a true extension of evolution? Could machines and humankind meld into a single species -- Robo sapiens?In Robo sapiens, award-winning journalists Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present the next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than a hundred robots are extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal field notes with behind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about the machines. Robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future.
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- Title Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species
- Author Peter Menzel; Faith D'Aluisio
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date September 1, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780262133821 / 0262133822
- Weight 2.72 lbs (1.23 kg)
- Dimensions 11.29 x 8.92 x 0.88 in (28.68 x 22.66 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Robotics, Artificial intelligence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00033946
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.892
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Citations
- Choice, 02/01/2001, Page 1111
- Library Journal, 09/15/2000, Page 110
- Publishers Weekly, 07/03/2000, Page 0
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