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The First Robot Was a Monk*

Posted by on Jun 19, 2011 in Otherhood | No Comments

Check out Radiolab’s fascinating piece on the miraculous sixteenth-century creation of a clockwork automaton of a Franciscan.

Monk Robot

*Actually, this monk robot is but an “early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton.” Please excuse the hyperbole.

 

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