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Terence Eden’s Blog

Book Review: Great Robots of History by Tim Major

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This is a lovely and twisted anthology of stories. Each presents a "historic" robot - be they an automaton, a puppet given life by the gods, or a resurrected villager. Some, like the Mechanical Turk, are historical fact but others are invented just for us to gawk at.

The stories are mostly dark and brooding, with the macabre turn. They're fun - but the constant theme is "what if I, an intelligent person, got trapped in the brain of a dullard?" Robots who are self-aware of their limitations reveal to us how terrifying dementia must be.

We meet robots who are reassured that they are without sin, and those which long to sin. Perhaps malicious dæmons reside in their programming just as bugs reside in our souls?

A fine collection.

Pygmalion kissing a statue who has been brought to life.
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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Great Robots of History by Tim Major”
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This is a lovely and twisted anthology of stories. Each presents a "historic" robot - be they an automaton, a puppet given life by the gods, or a resurrected villager. Some, like the Mechanical Turk, are historical fact but others are invented just for us to gawk at.

The stories are mostly…

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Pygmalion kissing a statue who has been brought to life.
Terence Eden’s Blog · Book Review: Great Robots of History by Tim Major
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Robots pitched to fill labour gap as Japan eyes offshore wind expansion
In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we talk to companies who say their robots will be essential to grow offshore wind in Japan, check out what's billed as the world's largest wildlife crossing, and look at a project to rescue native plants from bulldozers.
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