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100 1 Mayor, Adrienne,|d1946-|eauthor,|enarrator.
245 10 Gods and robots :|bmyths, machines, and ancient dreams of
technology|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cAdrienne
Mayor.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bPrinceton University Press,|c2018.
264 2 |bMade available through hoopla
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520 The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined
robots and other forms of artificial life-and even
invented real automated machines. The first robot to walk
the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous
machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by
Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500
years ago, long before medieval automata, and centuries
before technology made self-moving devices possible, Greek
mythology was exploring ideas about creating artificial
life-and grappling with still-unresolved ethical concerns
about biotechne, "life through craft." In this compelling,
richly illustrated book, Adrienne Mayor tells the
fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and
Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-
moving devices, and human enhancements-and how these
visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of
real animated machines. As early as Homer, Greeks were
imagining robotic servants, animated statues, and even
ancient versions of Artificial Intelligence, while in
Indian legend, Buddha's precious relics were defended by
robot warriors copied from Greco-Roman designs for real
automata. Mythic automata appear in tales about Jason and
the Argonauts, Medea, Daedalus, Prometheus, and Pandora,
and many of these machines are described as being built
with the same materials and methods that human artisans
used to make tools and statues. And, indeed, many
sophisticated animated devices were actually built in
antiquity, reaching a climax with the creation of a host
of automata in the ancient city of learning, Alexandria,
the original Silicon Valley. A groundbreaking account of
the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create
artificial life, Gods and Robots reveals how some of
today's most advanced innovations in robotics and AI were
foreshadowed in ancient myth-and how science has always
been driven by imagination. This is mythology for the age
of AI.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Robotics|xHistory.
650 0 Robots|xMythology.
650 0 Science, Ancient.
650 0 Science and civilization.
650 0 Technology|xReligious aspects.
650 0 Inventions|xHistory.
650 0 Technology and civilization.
650 0 Artificial intelligence|xHistory.
650 0 Artificial intelligence|xSocial aspects.
650 0 Technology|zRome|xHistory.
650 0 Technology|xHistory.
650 0 Technology|zGreece|xHistory.
700 1 Mayor, Adrienne.
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