Tales from a robotic world : how intelligent machines will shape our future / Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Floreano, Dario, author.

Nosengo, Nicola, 1973- author.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological forecasting.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Robots--Social aspects.

Robots.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Robots--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often through the words of scientists and entrepreneurs that make it happen"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1 Robots in the Lagoon

2 The Really Big One

3 Our First Martian Homes

4 Drones and the City

5 Love and Sex with Robots

6 A Day in the Factory of the Future

7 The First Nobel for Robotics

8 Microsurgeons' Fantastic Voyage

9 Life as It Could Be

10 How to Compete with Robots

11 Inventing an Industry

Epilogue: What Could Go Wrong, OR The Ethics of Robotics

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Floreano, Dario Tales from a Robotic World

ISBN:

0-262-37180-4

0-262-37179-0

OCLC:

1334727859