AUTHOR=De Rossi Danilo Emilio , D’Ursi Annamaria 

TITLE=For Every Thing There is a Season and a Time …: The Construction of a Humanoid. A Tribute to Vincenzo Tagliasco

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

VOLUME=2

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioengineering-and-biotechnology/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00019

DOI=10.3389/fbioe.2014.00019

ISSN=2296-4185

ABSTRACT=<p>“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.</p>