Engrossing, ultra modern innovative technologies research!

With amazing illustrations by Alex Ries the content of this book is fantastic. All the models and prototypes of androids presented here are more than incredible, from the most sophisticated to perform rescue tasks too dangerous for humans, to those designed for entertainment and sympathetic caregiving.

This book shows us the characteristics of each model and informs us of important issues, for example its design has been taken more and more into account to trigger a positive human response and, on the other hand, are being used as research models for studying the workings of the human brain. Therefore, some androids are being programmed with the ability to think or embodied intelligence because they are built with sensors to learn from the interaction with their environment. I was also astonished to learn that developers are looking to create computer brains from which eventually emerges human-like consciousness!!

My sincere appreciation to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book

Search and rescue droids, robots to provide company and assistance for the elderly, and even robots that can play football together (and dance like Peter Crouch when they score, perhaps) – all are here in this very good non-fiction read for the under-twelves. Every chapter is just a single double-page spread, and if not discussing some prototype robot somewhere it'll look at another aspect of their existence. Inspiring and informative – ought to be seriously thought of for school libraries etc.