A HISTORY OF ROBOTS

A HISTORY OF ROBOTS

What is it about robots that makes them so cool?

They're a huge par of our culture. They show up all the time in Sci-Fi films and novels. Robots: this name from robota, a Czech Slavic word.It meant that work that a medieval peasant was obliged to do for his medieval lord without any payment.

Robots like a recent invention? Their history be now?

Robots have been around for thousands of years, at least the idea of robots have been around since ancient times. In Greek mythology, Daedalus was known as a master craftsman who created life-like statues that could move and speak on their own.

Where was the creation of the first real robotslong ago?

It was used by the Ancient Greeks to calculate the positions of various astrnomical objects. In 18th century Europe, notable watchmakers would make automata to show of their skills .

There's lots of accounts in early literature about automata in ancient Greece and China. One of the oldest surviving automata is something called the Antikythera Mechanism, which is actually the earliest know analog computer.

Jacque de Vaucanson

He was a French mechanic who during the 1730's, invented three automaton, one of which was a drum player. And another one was a flute player and it wasn't like a statue with a flute with a musical device inside it.

Was it about Vaucanson's automata that really captured the imagination of the French people in the 18th century?

They were livng in an age where they were trying to look at everything as a machine. So there was the age when everybody was saying the universe is a machine that God created, and God ia a engineer.

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