21st Century Robot

The Making of a Manifesto

This book ends with a little robot standing backstage in Las Vegas, about to make his début in front of 5,000 people. The little robot’s name is Jimmy, and he’s the first 21^st Century Robot.

You might be asking yourself: what is a 21^st Century Robot?

Good question.

For most of their history, robots have only lived in science fiction. Long before the technology to build them was ready, robots could only be seen or experienced in science fiction stories, movies, comic books, and often times only in toys. But that didn’t stop people from imagining robots and exploring their implications. In fact, cultures all over the world have imagined and explored the implications of robots, long before the word was coined by Czechoslovakian ...