Product Description: Details how early mechanical automatons led to the advanced, intelligent robots of today, also spotlighting the brilliant scientists who made these advances possible. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Product Description: Artificial humans were always there, moving and sleeping amongst us. Their first traces are in the ancient myths of Prometheus and Pygmalion. In the eighteenth century they took the form of mechanical dolls, forerunners of the hi-tech Japanese robots of our own day produced in the engineering labs of Waseda and Osaka Universities...read more

Product Description: At one time, robots were merely the products of science fiction. In the modern world, they perform countless important functions. Todays robots manufacture automobiles, help doctors with complicated surgery, aid the military in battle, and more...read more

This illustrated examination of the origins of robots traces their development from the first medieval clockwork figures to current models capable of performing tasks that range from welding car bodies to serving drinks

Depicts the history of the robot and surveys the various contemporary models of robots for use in the home and industry