Scientific American Reports - Vol 18 No. 1 - 2008

Scientific American Reports - Vol 18 No. 1 - 2008 89 pages | 1 - 2008 | PDF | 8 Mb They have been part of our collective imagination almost since we began to set down words. Mechanical beings sparked to life in the myths of ancient Greece, the Middle East, China and the Nordic countries. Today we call them robots from robota, meaning drudgery or hard work in Czech and related languages. As that name implies, so far these useful machines have been limited in their applications to the sorts of repetitive tasks best suited to automatonstirelessly turning screw after screw in a factory assembly line, for instance. Links (8 Mb) Quote:IceFile.in (Free fast downloads) or Mirror Quote:rapidshare.com