Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He is the coauthor of Evolutionary Robotics and Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (both published by the MIT Press). Nicola Nosengo is a science writer and science communicator at EPFL. His work has appeared in Nature, the Economist, Wired, and other publications, and he is the Chief Editor of Nature Italy.

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