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Adrienne Mayor, “Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology” (Princeton UP, 2018)

Adrienne Mayor, “Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology” (Princeton UP, 2018)

FromPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast


Adrienne Mayor, “Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology” (Princeton UP, 2018)

FromPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Feb 6, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by the 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...
Released:
Feb 6, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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A series of interview with authors of new books from Princeton University Press