Robots may seem like a completely modern phenomenon, but the idea of creating artificial beings is by no means new. In this video we’ll look at the ancient predecessors of our modern robots, and see their development from a concept in mythology, to the earliest simple devices, and finally to full-fledged self-moving statues.
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Metropolis (1927)
Sophia the Robot Gives a Glimpse of What's to Come in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhPrnw4QKk
Do You Love Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
Demonstration of David Roentgen's Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, The Dulcimer Player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITEU4fsqCU
Mechanical Marvels—Automaton: Walking Monk Figure, 1550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVKnlXcDDg
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Therapaenis - Servant by Heron and Filo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FuUx1zIGk8
Heron’s moving automaton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFrFi_Pq7vU
Justus Willberg plays the Hydraulis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZey_H8qmQA
Ancient Discoveries (2003-2009)
Home built Aeolipile Hero steam engine running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFMexBTpLs
The hydraulic automaton of the «chirping birds»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsk7SUuq7Q
Mechanical Marvels—Automaton: Miraculous Writing Machine, 1760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLUoDSNDj4U
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Relaxing Roman Music - Aetas Romana
By: Adrian von Ziegler
Fantasy: Lament for a Warrior's Soul
By: Random Mind
Desert Caravan
By: Aaron Kenny
Celtic Music - Fairy Tale
By: Adrian von Ziegler
Roman Music - Convivium
By: Adrian von Ziegler
Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 48
By: Luke Faulkner (musopen.org)
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com (requested format)
→ SOURCES
https://bradleysmp.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/5/6/52565519/robots_moving_statues_and_automata.pdf
https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/15398/bur_tcd_thesis.pdf;jsessionid=0021D79BEB8B8FA45396618CFE5D9CD1?sequence=1
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/187845826.pdf
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/685672
https://www.academia.edu/40650941/The_Grand_Procession_Galatersieg_and_Ptolemaic_Kingship
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02546867/document
https://nereus.mech.ntua.gr/Documents/pdf_ps/heron.pdf