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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Robots
Summary: In His Image and Imagination
Keywords: Evolution, History, Foundations
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Date: 13 Apr 89 00:50:22 GMT
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In article <1795@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> jorenby@thor.acc.stolaf.edu
(Curt Jorenby) writes:

 >	I'm looking for sources describing the evolution of robots, 
 >	preferably from the beginning computers on little rollers to
 >	some of the more complex robots in research and industry.
 >	Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Although it is more a book of philosophy than history, you may enjoy
reading Norbert Wiener's _God and Golem, Inc._, in which the founder
of Cybernetics reflects on the relationship of man to robot.

--Barry Kort