How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous "smart" house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies?

In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the secrets to quashing a robot mutiny. From treating laser wounds to fooling face and speech recognition, outwitting robot logic to engaging in hand-to-pincer combat, How to Survive a Robot Uprising covers every possible doomsday scenario facing the newest endangered species: humans.

Based on extensive interviews with prominent scientists and including a thorough overview of cutting edge robot prototypes like humanoid walkers, insect, gecko, and snake robots, this one-of-a-kind audiobook makes a witty yet legitimate introduction to contemporary robotics.

©2005 Daniel H. Wilson (P)2006 Blackstone Audiobooks

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"Humorous and informative...this nifty little guide to surviving the inevitable robot apocalypse may have you reconsidering purchasing that 'smart' (read: insidious) refrigerator." (Publishers Weekly)

Informative & funny

Excellent information about the potential and limitations of robotics, told with dry humor. We thought the narrator's tone fit the material well - even a humorous book about an apocalypse deserves a dark delivery.
I hadn't really thought about robotics much before listening to this, and it gave me an excellent overview of the field. The author clearly knows his material, and he knows how to present it so a novice can understand it and learn.

Like a Dalek designed by Elon Musk

Dan Wilson gives us a mixture actual scientific reality like the latest information on Kismet from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and the fictional works of Asimov, William Gibson, and Warren Ellis. The book deals with the subject matter with in-world realism, dual-world practicality, and respect.

The narration is sustained, with uncommonly appropriate intonation, even if the performance is characterless and less-than-desireable.

This book could be a sister book to Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guides and comes highly recommended.

reminds me of goofy sports

remember goofy playing sports while trying to follow along the narrators instructions only to fabulously fail? this book reminds me of that. only wish they had the yodeling between chapters.

dry humor survival guide

It's not so much a story as a dry humor survival guide for the imminent robot uprising. Which is what the title suggests. So it's pretty much exactly how it sounds like. I thought the oration style of the narrator matched the tone of the book very well.

Funny, Scary, All Too Plausible

At first you might think this is a joke, and some of it is. But most of it is real and frightening in it's implications.