Collector’s book about automatons: “Artificial creatures, automatons in a virtual world”.

Collector’s book about automatons: “Artificial creatures, automatons in a virtual world”.

Author of the book about automatons : Jean-Claude Heudin.

Summary of the book about automatons: From the erotic Galatea to the future Eve, from Golem with a body made of clay to the monster pieced together by Frankenstein, Capek’s robots to Cameron’s Terminator, from Kubrick’s paranoid computer to agent Smith in the Matrix, artificial creatures have always lived in our imaginations and generated fascination and fear

Jean-Claude Heudin tells their story. Exploring more than 2000 years, he reveals the artistic and mythical as well as the scientific and technical dimensions. Since the rupestrian paintings and the ancient animated statues, the Jacquemarts and the Lumières automatons up until robotic pet dogs, to computer viruses and today’s artificial intelligence.

This book also explores current trends and future prospects, he questions: are we almost at the point of creating life? And if so what kind?

Book written in the French language - 495 pages -Black and White illustrations.