The Proto-Robots of Antiquity

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

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