Many ancient mythologies include artificial people, such as the mechanical servants built by the Greek god
Hephaestus[96] (
Vulcan to the Romans), the clay
golems of Jewish legend and clay giants of Norse legend, and
Galatea, the mythical statue of
Pygmalion that came to life. In Greek drama,
Deus Ex Machina was contrived as a dramatic device that usually involved lowering a deity by wires into the play to solve a seemingly impossible problem.
In the 4th century BC, the Greek mathematician
Archytas of Tarentum postulated a mechanical steam-operated bird he called "The Pigeon".
Hero of Alexandria (10–70 AD) created numerous user-configurable automated devices, and described machines powered by air pressure, steam and water.
[97] Su Song built a clock tower in China in 1088 featuring mechanical figurines that chimed the hours.
[98]
Al-Jazari (1136–1206), a
Muslim inventor during the
Artuqid dynasty, designed and constructed a number of automated machines, including kitchen appliances, musical automata powered by
water, and the first
programmable humanoid robots in 1206.
[citation needed] The robots appeared as four musicians on a boat in a lake, entertaining guests at royal drinking parties. His
mechanism had a programmable drum machine with pegs (
cams) that bumped into little
levers that operated
percussion instruments. The drummer could be made to play different rhythms and different drum patterns by moving the pegs to different locations.
From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
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