Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Adrienne Mayor.

"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, long before medieval automata, and centuries before technology made self-moving devices possible, G...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Robotics > History.
Robots > Mythology.
Science, Ancient.
Science and civilization.
Technology > Religious aspects.
Inventions > History.
Technology and civilization.
Artificial intelligence > History.
Artificial intelligence > Social aspects.
Technology > Rome > History.
Technology > History.
Technology > Greece > History.
Technology.
Inventions.
Artificial intelligence.
Robotics.
Rome (Empire)
Greece.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
Format: Book

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