What Am I For? Self-Purpose and Self-Reproduction in Rossum’s Universal Robots (Samoúčelnost a samoreprodukce u Rossumových univerzálních robotů)

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What Am I For? Self-Purpose and Self-Reproduction in Rossum’s Universal Robots (Samoúčelnost a samoreprodukce u Rossumových univerzálních robotů)

Tim Taylor

2020

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Reference

Taylor, T. (2020). What Am I For? Self-Purpose and Self-Reproduction in Rossum’s Universal Robots (Samoúčelnost a samoreprodukce u Rossumových univerzálních robotů). In J. Čejková (Ed.), ROBOT 100: Sto rozumů (pp. 178–180). Prague: Kosmas.

BibTeX

@incollection{taylor2020what,
  author = {Taylor, Tim},
  title = {What Am I For? Self-Purpose and Self-Reproduction in Rossum's Universal Robots (Samoúčelnost a samoreprodukce u Rossumových univerzálních robotů)},
  booktitle = {ROBOT 100: Sto rozumů},
  editor = {\v{C}ejkov\'{a}, Jitka},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {178-180},
  isbn = {978-80-7592-062-1},
  publisher = {Kosmas},
  address = {Prague},
  category = {chapter},
  keywords = {selfrep, agency},
  note = {Centenary edition of Karel \v{C}apek's Rossum's Universal Robots. In Czech.}
}

Notes

Book website here.

Publication of Czech version of book expected in November 2020. Publication of an English version planned for 2021.

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