TY - GEN AU - Duncan, David Ewing TI - Talking to robots: tales from our human-robot futures SN - 9781472142917 U1 - 629.8​924019 DUN PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Robinson KW - Robotics -- Human Factors KW - Human-Robot Interaction N2 - What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology -- it's also about what robots tell us about being human ER -