They can climb stairs, juggle balls, open a door, smile engagingly, hear and see, swing like a monkey, crawl like a crab and swim like a fish. Who?  Why the robots, of course.  This startling picture book explores the amazing scope of robot capabilities.  The photographs of the robots and their creators provide a unique picture of the dawn of these intelligent machines.  The narratives are brief and to the point, explaining just enough but always remaining as support for the pictures.  As I thumbed through this book, it became clear that the development of humanlike robots will come one project at a time, not by a thunderous breakthrough from a single genius working in a dark lab.  Definitely buy this book; there’s nothing quite like it.

Nothing quite like it.