Introduction vii
1 Robots in the Lagoon 1
2 The Really Big One 15
3 Our First Martian Homes 45
4 Drones and the City 63
5 Love and Sex with Robots 87
6 A Day in the Factory of the Future 109
7 The First Nobel for Robotics 131
8 Microsurgeons' Fantastic Voyage 155
9 Life as it Could Be 171
10 How to Compete with Robots 195
11 Inventing an Industry 207
Epilogue: What Could Go Wrong, or the Ethics of Robotics 227
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 237
Index 255

"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often through the words of scientists and entrepreneurs that make it happen"--

Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo