If you thought that the robot is one technology of the future you are probably wrong. The first “automata” were built in the 1770s. Meet “The Writer”.
From his program with the BBC "Mechanical MarvelsWe present to you the incredible (automata) miracle boy made in Switzerland by his watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz, along with his son Henri-Louis and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. "The goal was, I think, the mechanization and the reason the automation of the passions", says the professor Simon schaffer in the BBC clip.
Although from the outside the little one looks like a porcelain doll, its interior consists of 6.000 parts, very carefully refined to fit inside its limited space body of.
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