TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horst Albert Glaser
AU  - Sabine Rossbach
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Artificial Human
T2  - A Tragical History
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108704
N2  - Artificial humans were always there, moving and sleeping amongst us. Their first traces are in the ancient myths of Prometheus and Pygmalion. In the eighteenth century they took the form of mechanical dolls, forerunners of the hi-tech Japanese robots of our own day produced in the engineering labs of Waseda and Osaka Universities. The authors follow the track of these humanoid constructs through various countries and across more than two thousand years of history, reflecting on the ideas that spawned them (Descartes, Leibniz, LaMettrie) and the social, technological and medical developments that accompanied and to a great extent explain them.
KW  - Robots, Cyborgs, Replicants, Age of the Machine, Myth of Prometheus
LA  - English
ER  -