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The Construction of Living Robots revealed

the construction of living robotsBack when I was working out of the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, I came across a pamplet published in 1952 by one Edmund C. Berkley entitled “The Construction of Living Robots” where it was put forth that…

It would seem reasonable to expect that before a dozen more years go by, automatic machines (i.e., robots) that possess the essential properties of life will be “in existence” — or should we say “alive”? Certainly much more than half the distance to the construction of living robots has been traveled

I scanned in all the pages (it’s a fairly short document), and I recently found the scans and their web-ready versions in an old CD, so I put it up here for anyone who’s interested. Click on the pages to advance them.

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