title: For Every Thing There is a Season and a Time …: The Construction of a Humanoid. A Tribute to Vincenzo Tagliasco.
abstract: "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, 2-7). 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.
authors.affiliation: Research Center "E. Piaggio", University of Pisa , Pisa , Italy.
authors.forename: Danilo Emilio
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: De Rossi
authors.affiliation: Aitek SpA , Genova , Italy.
authors.forename: Annamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: D'Ursi
keywords: artifacts; automa; builder; humanoid; machine