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A postulated interior of the Duck of Vaucanson (1738–1739) Clockwork crayfish automoton, made in Augsburg in 1589, Technical Instrument Museum, Dresden Pinocchio automaton An automaton ( / ɔː ˈ t ɒ m ə t ən / ⓘ ; pl. : automata or automatons ) is a relatively self-operating machine , or control mechanism designed to automatically ...
The implications of humanoid automatons were ... created an automaton eagle and fly made of ... that there were 742,500 industrial robots in the world, with more than ...
He produced what may have been "the world's first practical programmable machine:" [9] an automatic theatre. 260 Porphyry wrote Isagogê which categorized knowledge and logic, including a drawing of what would later be called a "semantic net". [10] ~800
From flying cars to ancient earthquake detectors to automated doors, it turns out the world has been filled with futuristic inventions far longer than we realized. #1 An Ancient Earthquake Detector
Realistic humanoid automata were built by craftsman from many civilizations, including Yan Shi, [19] Hero of Alexandria, [20] Al-Jazari, [21] Haroun al-Rashid, [22] Jacques de Vaucanson, [23] [24] Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, [25] Pierre Jaquet-Droz and Wolfgang von Kempelen. [26] [27] The oldest known automata were the sacred statues of ancient ...
The Brennan torpedo, invented by Louis Brennan in 1877, was powered by two contra-rotating propellers that were spun by rapidly pulling out wires from drums wound inside the torpedo. Differential speed on the wires connected to the shore station allowed the torpedo to be guided to its target, making it "the world's first practical guided ...
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
Model of Leonardo's robot with inner workings, on display in Berlin. Leonardo's robot, or Leonardo's mechanical knight (Italian: Automa cavaliere, lit."Automaton knight"), is a humanoid automaton designed and possibly constructed by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 15th century.