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

ISBN: 0691183511

ISBN13: 9780691183510

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

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

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