Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve (Paperback, 2020)

Self-Reproducing Machines: The Evolution of an Idea.- Animals and Machines: Changing Relationships in the 17th and 18th Centuries.- Babbage Meets Darwin: Mechanization and Evolution in the 19th Century.- Robot Evolution and the Fate of Humanity: Pop Culture and Futurology in the Early 20th Century.- From Idea to Reality: Designing and Building Self-reproducing Machines in the Mid-20th Century.- More Recent Developments: Signposts to Work from the 1960s to the Present.- The Next Evolution: Reflection and Outlook.