"Digital People is a comprehensive yet compact survey of robots and bionics. Rather than
intoning the usual litany of robots, Perkowitz sensibly organizes his book function by function ...
He offers an entertaining potted history of bionics beginning with the Hindu queen Vishpla
(circa 2000 B.C.), who replaced a leg lost in battle with an iron one."
"Perkowitz, professor of physics at Emory University, takes the reader on an absorbing
journey through the history of human efforts to duplicate human functions."
"The author is at his best illuminating the history of artificial life, starting with Talos, the bronze
automaton created by Hephaestus in Greek myth, and touching on every fictional work that has
shaped the genre. ... as a history of humans' fascination with artificial life -- both real and
fictional -- this book is informative."
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