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Hardcover. Etat : Used - Very Good. Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in ahigh-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist --automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will besomething else: smart machines that act like living creatures. When they are broughtinto existence, science fiction will have become fact.What will happen then? Withour prosthetic limbs, titanium hips, and artificial eyes, we are already beginningto resemble our machines. Equally important, our machines are beginning to resembleus. Robots already walk, talk, and dance; they can react to our facial expressionsand obey verbal commands. When they take the next step and become fully autonomous, what will they do? Will we be partners or rivals? Could we meld into a singlespecies -- Robo sapiens?In Robo sapiens, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio presentthe next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliantphotographs of more than one hundred robots is an account of the little-known, yetvitally important scientific competition to build an autonomous robot. Containingextensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal 'field notes' withbehind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about themachines, Robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future. A delightful, at times haunting, album of robots and their makers offers interviews with the makers and photographers of both. In this field guide to our mechanical future, the authors question if humans and robots might someday meld into a single species--Robo Sapiens. Full color. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Price clipped.