The Secret of Machine Life

Author: Ruan Xiaogang
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This book tells the story of machine life: the machine worm nurtured in Wiener's thought experiment, Adam Elmer and Eve Elsie of machine life, the adventurous spider Dante that braves volcanoes, the humanized robot ASIMO, the "Voyager" that lands on Mars with "Pathfinder," and the machine twins "Spirit" and "Opportunity." The book analyzes the science of nurturing machine life—cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and robotics—and deciphers the essence of machine life: the construction of machine life—metallic bodies and electronic organs, the behavior of machine life—perceiving and cognizing like humans and animals, the origin and evolution of machine life—"They will catch up with us humans in half a century."