Introduction

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are associated with modern-day technology and science, but interestingly, descriptions of intelligent objects and humanlike machines can be found in ancient texts.In the XVIII book of Homer's Iliad, for example, we read about a "wondrous sight": 1 twenty tripods with golden wheels that could be propelled to the chamber where gods were to hold an assembly and moved back to the place where they were created.We also learn about assistants made of gold that were fashioned after real women and were intelligent, nimble, and skillful.Homer's description of autonomous tripods and humanlike artificial assistants can be viewed as poetic imagination or a stylistic device aimed at creating a vivid image, but it can also be viewed as a foreboding of modern-day technological developments and an expression of a deeply held human desire to create and invent.Over the past century, and especially over the past decade, this desire has resulted in impressive achievements in the area of AI and robotics

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