We, Robot
Skywalker's Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact
1st Edition
Published on 7. December 2010
240 pages
978-0-7627-7494-4 (ISBN)
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We, Robot does for robotics what Michio Kaku's bestselling Physics of the Impossible has done for physics. How close to becoming reality are our favorite science fiction robots? And what might be the real-life consequences of their existence? Robotics and artificial intelligence expert (and science fiction fan) Mark Stephen Meadows answers that question with an irresistible blend of hard science, futurist imagination, solid statistics, pop culture, and plenty of humor.
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Skywalker's Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, And How Fiction Became Fact
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Mark Stephen Meadows is the author of I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life and Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative. The award-winning co-inventor of four patents relating to artificial intelligence and virtual worlds, he is a respected international lecturer and the founder of Echo & Shadow and HeadCase Humanufacturing?companies involved with artificial intelligence. Visit him at markmeadows.com.
Content
- We, Robot
- Contents
- Introduction: The Virginia Calculator
- PART ONE: TODAY
- 1 The Terminator: On Robots That Hunt Humans, Have Faces, and Why We Are So Afraid of Them-Emotion, Part 1
- I, Robot Hunter
- Robots Gone Wild!
- How the Autocalypse Goes Down
- Soldiers Gone Wild!
- Robots Don't Kill People
- People with Remote Controls Kill People
- A Quick Stroll through the Uncanny Valley
- Why I'm Afraid of My Own Shadow
- 2 The Jetsons: On Robots That Cook Pancakes, Vacuum, and Tend to Cities, Farms, and Fields-Interaction, Part 1
- Physically Active, But Shy
- The Robot Maid, Part 1
- In the Kitchen
- The Dirty Work
- In the Street, City, and Shopping Mall
- In Fields and Farms
- Child Care, Legislation, and Safety
- The Robot Maid, Part 2
- 3 2001: A Space Odyssey: On Robots That Play Chess, Tell Jokes, and Invest Your Money-Intelligence, Part 1
- Knowledge Workers
- We're Past 2001 . . . Where's HAL 9000 ?
- A Robot Walks into a Bar and Asks for a Screwdriver
- A Cyclops Sees Deeply
- A Fault in the AE35 Unit
- 4 Iron Man: How to Dodge Bullets, Leap Small Buildings in a Single Bound, and Stop a Speeding Train-Body, Part 1
- Cyberdyne's HAL
- The Power Suit
- Strength Enhancements, Bullet-Dodging Sensors, On-Board AI Copilot, and BMI Action
- Embrace Your Inner Cyborg
- The Cyborg Animal
- PART TWO: FUTURAMA
- 5 Blade Runner: On Robots That Will Sing, Search, Make a Mewling Noise, and Then Measure Your Emotions-Emotion, Part 2
- "I Believe It's Called Empathy."
- The Stormtrooper Sexpot
- The Form and Function of Android Design (or, Android as Entertainment Media)
- More Animal Than Animal
- How Robots Measure Your Emotions Via Your Body
- How Robots Measure Your Emotions Via Your Words
- We're All Deckards
- 6 Star Wars: On Superstars, Masters, Slaves, and the Unholy Coupling of an iPhone, an Avatar, and a Cat-Interaction, Part 2
- Robot Rage
- "E chu ta!" (How Rude!)-E-3PO and C-3PO
- Say Hello to Honda's ASIMO
- The Medium of Masters and Slaves
- Nao, the Pet-Friend from Inner Space
- 7 Battlestar Galactica: On Resurrections, Autoportraits, Top-Downs, Bottom-Ups, and Why AI is an Obsolete Art- Intelligence, Part 2
- How to Conduct a Resurrection
- Autoportraits
- The State of the Obsolete Art
- My Avatar, My Robot
- 8 Avatar: On Wetware Avatars, Death from the Neck Down, and the Horror of the Train-Body, Part 2
- Presentable Packages
- Your Hybrot for an Avatar?
- A Very Humanlike Robot
- Lost in the Woods
- I, Train
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
