Author Lee Gutkind March 20, 2007

LEE GUTKIND discusses & signs ALMOST HUMAN: MAKING ROBOTS THINK

A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy. The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world's first robot scientist. Award-winning author Lee Gutkind immersed himself in this frenzied subculture, following CMU’s roboticists and their bold conceptual machines from Pittsburgh to NASA and to the most barren and arid desert on earth. He makes intelligible their discoveries and stumbling points in this lively behind-the-scenes work. This event is free and open to the public.

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