Incredible strength... Superior intelligence... And even theability to reproduce. In the 21st century, robots are beingprogrammed to do everything from performing surgery on humans -to exploring other planets. And humanoid robots are rapidlyreaching a level of sophistication that was thought to existonly in science fiction. But what are the implications ofcreating robots that are increasingly intelligent andindependent? Is the obsession with creating counterfeit humansreally pointing the way to mankind's future... or to its past?Greek stories dating to 2000 B.C. tell of the god Hephaestuscreating robots to build weapons, as well as the bronze giantTalos. In Egypt, the Pyramid Texts say that the god Osiris wasdismembered, then reassembled and brought back to life justlike a machine. If sophisticated robots really did exist in theancient world - what function did they serve? Who built them?And what happened to them?
