May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
5h 50m
English

Welcome to the factory.
Taxonomy by Eliot K. Daughtry
Illustrations by Greg Maxson
FROM THE WORD’S FIRST USE IN KAREL ČAPEK’S 1920 play R.U.R., “robots” have existed in fiction before fact. Čapek’s roboti were not metallic, but biological "people" built by (and for) an assembly line. And though the science of robotics is so far mostly about electronics and mechanics, it may not always be. What will it be like when we can remake ourselves, for real? What will it mean to be manufactured?