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In addition to being credited with the inversion of the hammer, the Pythagorean inventor Archites of Tarentum, who lived between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, is believed to have made a wooden pigeon automaton that could fly thanks to a system of counterweights and air enclosed inside. Later, around the 1st century B.C., the engineer Heron made a series of automatons, from automatic doors activated by fire to the eolipile, a hollow glass ball that rotated at high speed by means of water vapor. -
Design of a humanoid robot by Leonardo da Vinci -
Mechanical duck capable of eating, flapping its wings and excreting by Jacques de Vaucanson. -
Japanese mechanical toys that serve tea, shoot arrows and paint. -
Invented by joseph jacqward, it used a system of punched cards that allowed even the most inexperienced to produce complex designs. -
Henri Maillardert built a mechanical doll that was capable of drawing pictures. A series of cams were used as the 'program' for the device in the process of writing and drawing. These mechanical creations of human form should be considered as isolated investments that reflect the genius of men who were ahead of their time. -
the first mobile robot in history. Its technical capabilities were still very limited. It was actually a light-sensitive electromechanical robot with internal and external stability. -
The ASIMO was introduced by Honda in 2000. Since then, robotics has specialized towards applications such as industry, loading and unloading of materials and machines, processing operations such as welding or assembling different objects, laboratories, agriculture, education, medicine, construction and earth, underwater and space exploration, domestic and even sexual use.