πAncient automata
The concept βrobotβ originates from Czech writer Karel Δapek.
However, automata are common through history both in the real world and in stories.
Mechanical and psychological spectacle
Temple automatics as power mechanism
Moving on to medieval Europe, the automata and artifice in stories merge with the concept of Natura artifex, inspiring the 17th-century notions of mechanical nature and clockwork-world, which have in turn contributed to our contemporary models of rationality, underlying the conceptualisation of current technologies.
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