Human Robots in Myth and Science

First published in 1966, in Human Robots in Myth and Science, the author traces the idea of the robot from antiquity until the present day (1960s) and sketches the lines of its likely development in the future.

List of contents

Preface 1. Robots in Antiquity 2. Robots in the Middle Ages 3. A Man-Made Man 4. Robots in Fiction- with an Appendix on Pygmalionism and Allied Matters 5. Theory of Robots in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 6. The Fabrication of Actual Automata 7. Motives of Robot Makers 8. Robots in the Recent Past and the Immediate Future 9. Is Man a Robot?

Product details

• Authors: John Cohen, Cohen John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2025
• EAN: 9781041061915
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4106191-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; History, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics, History of Science, Human Robots;Myth and Science;A Man-made Man;Actual Automata