Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

This audiobook narrated by Adrienne Mayor reveals the story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life 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...