Illustration of the Archimedes automatic wind instrumentalist (image courtesy Hatje Cantz) In 2009, Tokyo’s Waseda University built a fedora-sporting flautist robot powered by cranked air. But this is ...
The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey and his wife Heather are auctioning a selection of rare mechanical devices called automata in Edinburgh, Scotland. Automata are models of people or animals from ...
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo helped introduce many people to the wonder of automatons — i.e., mechanical people and other figures. But there’s a lot more to automatons than Scorsese’s film revealed, ...
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