
Tales from a Robotic World
How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future
MIT Press
Published on 27. September 2022
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-262-04744-9 (ISBN)
Description
"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"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04744-9 (9780262047449)
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Other editions
Additional editions

Dario Floreano | Nicola Nosengo
Tales from a Robotic World
How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future
E-Book
09/2022
MIT Press
€29.49
Available for download
Persons
Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo
Content
Introduction vii
1 Robots in the Lagoon 1
2 The Really Big One 15
3 Our First Martian Homes 45
4 Drones and the City 63
5 Love and Sex with Robots 87
6 A Day in the Factory of the Future 109
7 The First Nobel for Robotics 131
8 Microsurgeons' Fantastic Voyage 155
9 Life as it Could Be 171
10 How to Compete with Robots 195
11 Inventing an Industry 207
Epilogue: What Could Go Wrong, or the Ethics of Robotics 227
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 237
Index 255
1 Robots in the Lagoon 1
2 The Really Big One 15
3 Our First Martian Homes 45
4 Drones and the City 63
5 Love and Sex with Robots 87
6 A Day in the Factory of the Future 109
7 The First Nobel for Robotics 131
8 Microsurgeons' Fantastic Voyage 155
9 Life as it Could Be 171
10 How to Compete with Robots 195
11 Inventing an Industry 207
Epilogue: What Could Go Wrong, or the Ethics of Robotics 227
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 237
Index 255