Talos:

Talos:

The first robot to walk the earth—in Greek myth from the time of Homer—was a bronze giant called Talos, forged by Hephaestus, the blacksmith god of technology. In fact, the word automaton, “self-moving,” was first used by Homer (750-650 BC) to describe the many animated devices fabricated by Hephaestus. The...

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The New Mechanix Illustrated

The New Mechanix Illustrated

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Read Now on ISSUU Read on Kindle In this special edition of Mechanix Illustrated:  Shuttle Astronaut Mike Massimino on engineering a path to space with robotics, teleoperation, and innovations in force feedback. Special focus on self-driving cars. Augmented reality in head-up displays. A history of human-machine systems in space. Advances...

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