"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often through the words of scientists and entrepreneurs that make it happen"-- Provided by publisher.

1.Robots in the lagoon -- 2. The really big one -- 3. Our first Martian homes -- 4. Drones and the city -- 5. Love and sex with robots -- 6. A day in the factory of the future -- 7. The first Nobel for robotics -- 8. Microsurgeons' fantastic voyage -- 9. Life as It could be -- 10. How to compete with robots -- 11. Inventing an industry.