UW News
Qishi Zhou
June 17, 2022
Q&A: New children’s book shows how natural world inspired inventor to create medieval robots
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“Robots and Other Amazing Gadgets Invented 800 Years Ago,” a children’s book by the UW’s Faisal Hossain and Qishi Zhou, shares the inventions of Ismail Al-Jazari, a 12th-century polymath considered by many to be the “father of robotics.”