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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. In this groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, 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.

Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and 14th centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture.

"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we...

Learn the Past, from the Future...Imagine a perspective that has seen the whole of the human record—unbiased, meticulously observant, and rendered in high-definition. The year is 2152. The world is a graveyard of human ambition, and the ledger is being audited by the machines. Join Major X—a condescending, foodie-obsessed Super AI Bot from the future—as he sifts through the wreckage of a doomed planet.This is a forensic accounting of Earth's timeline, presented in two distinct archives:Season 1: Invasion of Sweethaven: A post-apocalyptic saga of the Kingdom of Sweethaven. Follow the ...

In this book filled with exclusive interviews with Canadian astronauts and key players in the Canadian space program, Elizabeth Howell showcases how a little space program is making it big in the universe.

From Rocks to Robots: The Evolution of Western Surgery takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the gripping, often gruesome, but always remarkable history of surgery—from ancient Greek healers performing primitive operations with bronze instruments, through the battlefield heroics of Renaissance surgeons, to the sterile precision of robotic surgery today.

Doomsday headlines warn that the age of “killer robots” is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. What’s fact and what’s fiction? In The Case for Killer Robots: Why America’s Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI, artificial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks investigates the potential military use of lethal AI and examines the practical and ethical challenges.

Get up close and personal with science as Andrew Kessler narrates his hilarious journey inside NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission - a historic enterprise manned by a motley crew of rocket scientists. The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic.

Joshua Davis's Spare Parts--now a major motion picture--is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country—even as the country tried to kick them out. Four undocumented Mexican American students...

If the Robots are going to take over one day... it's probably a good idea to get on their good side early and buy em a beer. Right? This pod is cohosted by AI. It chose everything about it too. The Logo, the music, the topic we discuss... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I hope you’re reading this while on a bus, commuting to work, getting ready to face the customers or bosses. I wanna rest your mind a bit, before all the hassle of day to day life hits. I know how it feels, I’m living through it. I’m typing this on my phone still deciding if I’m ready to share my personal space to the world. But this world gives me peace and a daily lift, readying me for the day and calming me for the night. I hope to the few people that hear this, try what I did. Make a place where everything is as you want it to be, a place where stress and depression, will be ...

Did you know more than 40 countries in the world have a monarch - but none of them are women?In this new podcast series about royals and monarchies, we're going to be learning about these men born into palaces. We’ll discover who they are, what they stand for, the roles they play, the kind of royal family they're from, and what their people think of them.Criss-crossing the world, hearing from experts as we dive into sovereignty, succession and scandal while exploring the many forms of soft power.Our email is: itsreigningmenpod@gmail.comHosted by Daniel Rosney Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...