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+====== Automata ======
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+A self-operating machine or robot, the art of making machines. The idea of taking static object and arranging them to perform some task or just to appear to move. Their energy source may include wind, or wind up cranks. Our modern world, the industrial revolution is more and more an expression of automata and will continue to be.
+What are we?
+A new attitude towards automata is to be found in Descartes when he suggested that the bodies of animals are nothing more than complex machines - the bones, muscles and organs could be replaced with cogs, pistons and cams.
+The world's first successfully-built biomechanical automaton is considered to be The Flute Player, invented by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson in 1737. He also constructed the Digesting Duck, a mechanical duck that gave the false illusion of eating and defecating, seeming to endorse Cartesian ideas that animals are no more than machines of flesh.
+In the 1770s Swiss-born watch maker Pierre Jaquet-Droz, along with his son Henri-Louis and Jean-Frédéric Leschot designed a little robot that was called simply The Writer. What was incredible about their creation was that it was considered the  pièce de résistance to Jaquet-Droz’s career as one of the world’s greatest automata designers.
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