robots Edit

The history of the robots starts in Japan, at the Era Edo (1603-1868), with the creation of mechanical headstocks able to carry out simple tasks like serving the. The movements of these automats are activated by complex winder gears like those of a watch.
 
At the 16th century, Léonard de Vinci built the first androïde able to coordinate the movements of his arms, his legs and even of his jaws.
 
At the 18th century, considered as the golden age of the automats with famous duck of Jacques de Vaucanson, who could drink, to nourish themselves, caqueter, to bran themselves in water, to digest its food and even… déféquer. At the same period, the Jaquet-Droz clock and watch makers invented a musician, a writer and a draughtsman really carrying out the movements corresponding to the practice of their Article. 

At the 19th century, the automat speaking Euphonia about Eugene Faber was supposed to dialogue with the spectators and the Turkish automat of the baron von Kempelen played failures - perhaps actuated by human hidden in the device.