Yuan Longping, the renowned and respected Chinese scientist often taken for a farmer, has found the world a way out of famine. Unde-terred by the prevailing ignorance of heterosis in rice and other self-pollinating plants, he has dedicated himself to research into hybrid rice since the 1960s, and his feats have won him the accolade "father of hybrid rice" and earned him the honor of being made foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences Why is Yuan so obsessed by hybrid rice research? How did he manage with such simple conditions, scarce aterials, backward technol-ogy and insufficient information? What global impacts will Yuan and his team have? This book may give the answers.
本书通过大量人物回忆和纪实访谈，记述了以 中国机器人之父 蒋新松和王天然、曲道奎为代表的科技知识分子研发机器人的曲折经历，披露了许多不为人知的感人细节，同时对智能制造这一当今世界颇受关注的高科技领域在战略层面和科技伦理层面进行了深入地剖析和思考，就诸多全球面临的问题提出了前沿性观点。通过生动的故事和深刻的分析，全面展示了中国机器人产业的崛起和发展，展示中国科研技术人员从夹缝求生到征战市场，一路闯关攻坚，终将中国机器人打造成大国重器，也把 中国制造 推向 中国智造 。
