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Breakfast with Robots
The Future Science of Daily Life – from AI & Sleep to Gut Health & Travel
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Breakfast with Robots gives you a glimpse of what your daily routine could look like in the not-so-distant future.What will your morning look like in thirty years? Picture a robot butler serving your lab-grown breakfast, slug-like nanobots cleaning up after your shower, a 9,500-mile commute by...
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See moreBreakfast with Robots explores a typical day in the not-so-distant future, from AI-brewed coffee to quantum-powered workdays. It’s a fascinating, accessible look at how today’s science is shaping tomorrow’s everyday life.
Discover how different your daily routine could look in thirty years, from robot butlers and rocket-powered commutes to 3D-printed food and AI dream analysis.
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Breakfast with Robots gives you a glimpse of what your daily routine could look like in the not-so-distant future.
What will your morning look like in thirty years? Picture a robot butler serving your lab-grown breakfast, slug-like nanobots cleaning up after your shower, a 9,500-mile commute by rocket and using cranial implants to control your dreams. It may sound like a distant fantasy, but the future is already taking shape thanks to today’s science.
In equal parts exciting and unnerving, this book uncovers the incredible science and emerging technologies poised to transform how we eat, travel, work and rest. With accessible and digestible content alongside visual illustrations and fascinating facts, learn how these futuristic inventions could work and how close they are to becoming part of our everyday lives. The perfect gift for science lovers or anyone wanting to understand more about the next steps of technology.
By understanding the science of today, we can predict – and prepare for – the extraordinary world of tomorrow.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789298772
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 10 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Illustration: B&W line drawings and diagrams
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 330g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specializing in science, nature and technology. His writing explores both mainstream science and weird technology, from chemistry and physics to death-rays and biomimetic robots. Joel has degrees in molecular biology and psychology from the Universities of Warwick and Edinburgh respectively, and has written more than 40 titles, published in the UK, the US, Australia, Europe and Asia, including: Newton’s Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, 101 Problems for the Armchair Scientist, Reality Ahead of Schedule: How Science Fiction Inspires Science Fact and Futureworld: Tomorrow’s Technology Today.
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