%0 Journal Article
%T For Every Thing There is a Season and a Time£¿¡­: The Construction of a Humanoid. A Tribute to Vincenzo Tagliasco
%A Danilo Emilio De Rossi
%A Annamaria D¡¯Ursi
%J Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00019
%X ¡°There¡¯s a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak¡­¡± (Ecclesiastes 3, 2¨C7). There was a time when automata were designed like clocks. Androids will have the time of their creators, the state of the art in technology, a wealth of experience to draw from, as well as the capacity to carry out actions as being endowed with meaning. The machine will undergo a long period of nurturing, from which it will learn to shape some sort of identity.
%K humanoid
%K automa
%K machine
%K artifacts
%K builder
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00019/abstract