false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175718615m/550142.jpg 550142 2 <B>A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy.</B><BR><BR>The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world's first robot scientist, now back home. Robot Segways learn to play soccer, while other robots go on treasure hunts or are destined for hospitals and museums. Dozens of cavorting mechanical creatures, along with tangles of wire, tools, and computer innards are scattered haphazardly. All of these zipping and zooming gizmos are controlled by disheveled young men sitting on the floor, folding chairs, or tool cases, or huddled over laptops squinting into displays with manic intensity. Award-winning author Lee Gutkind immersed himself in this frenzied subculture, following these young roboticists and their bold conceptual machines from Pittsburgh to NASA and to the most barren and arid desert on earth. He makes intelligible their discoveries and stumbling points in this lively behind-the-scenes work. 15 illustrations. 537389 19 3 2007 Almost Human: Making Robots Think total:9|4:2|3:3|2:3|1:1| 9 24 22 3 4 0 false false Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 07:58:32 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 17:42:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jan 16 11:01:55 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 11:02:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 09 11:17:27 -0700 2007 Wed May 09 11:17:55 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 18:22:14 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 18:22:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 17:51:43 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 17:51:43 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 09:28:09 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 09:45:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 10 20:12:37 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 20:12:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 12 13:19:04 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 13:19:04 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Aug 27 12:37:39 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 12:37:39 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 18 10:37:21 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 11:49:49 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 06:11:12 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 06:11:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 30 21:36:31 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 21:36:31 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 21 06:35:43 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 31 16:00:39 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 16:00:39 -0800 2007 1 0 false false Fri Dec 21 21:31:30 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 21:31:30 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Fri Dec 28 18:10:51 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 20:35:04 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 20:35:14 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 09:59:03 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 09:59:04 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Aug 19 21:38:55 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 21:38:57 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Wed Jan 02 13:55:37 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 17 10:47:48 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 10:47:53 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Thu Jul 19 13:48:21 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 13:48:24 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Sun Jul 08 14:35:56 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 14:35:56 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=550142