Shockley's Robot Dream
IEEE Spectrum MagazineWilliam Shockley is well known for helping to invent the transistor, but his aspiration to replace human workers with robotic ones is mostly lost to history.
William Shockley is well known for helping to invent the transistor, but his aspiration to replace human workers with robotic ones is mostly lost to history.
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