They, Robots.('BUILDING BOTS')('FLESH AND MACHINES: HOW ROBOTS WILL CHANGE US')(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 09-DEC-02

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In 1739, the French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson unveiled his latest startling creation: an anatomically convincing, yet wholly mechanical, duck--one that quacked, ate grain, and, most impressively, excreted. Vaucanson's mechanical duck was a sensation, and, as Rodney A. Brooks relates in his engaging FLESH AND MACHINES: HOW ROBOTS WILL...

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